How to Attract Cardinals to Your Yard and Keep Them Coming Back
Learn how to attract cardinals with the right food, feeders, water, plants, shelter, and simple backyard changes.
Backyard Birding
You don’t have to travel to a wildlife refuge or hike deep into the woods to enjoy birdwatching. Some of the most interesting bird activity can happen right outside your own home.
Our Backyard Birding guides help you make the most of the birds visiting your yard, garden, trees, feeders, bird baths, and neighborhood.
Explore seasonal bird activity, backyard birdwatching tips, creating bird-friendly spaces, common backyard bird problems, window collisions, squirrels and feeders, predators, bird-safe practices, observing birds around your property, and the many unexpected situations that happen when people and wild birds share the same space.
Whether you’ve maintained feeders for decades or just noticed your first cardinal outside the kitchen window, backyard birding is one of the easiest ways to become more familiar with the wildlife living around you.