How to attract birds to your window

It can be tricky to encourage birds to come to a window, although the only thing you need to know is, it relies heavily on bird feed, and bird feed alone.

How to attract birds to your window is by lining the window sill with bird food; prioritizing sunflower seeds, peanuts and dried mealworms. Attract birds to a window bird feeder dish, or use a hanger to hang a regular seed feeder. Plant native wildflowers in a window box or in a planter sitting below the window.

It sure can be a challenge to attract birds to a window as the location can be seen as suspicious to your common backyard birds.

Regardless, it is possible if you can give it time with a lot of patience on your part.

You can begin the process by situating the bird feeder pole if in use one, up to a few feet to the window you plan to attract songbirds to.

Meanwhile you can place a mix of bird food, including their favorite sunflower seeds on your window sill - with it scattered along the window sill or make a simple heap of bird food in an unobstructed area.

You'd need to remove the regular bird feeders hanging up in the yard for the time being, as birds will continue to ignore the window location if bird food is still accessible in their reliable bird feeders.

No window sill is needed, especially if you don't have the space on it; thus to make use of a window bird feeder can be a really good idea - as it keeps bird food clean and dry.

You will stick the window bird feeder with use of its suction cups to a clean panel of glass only, while filling up the open dish with sunflower seeds of course - or less inferior seed mixes which contain peanuts, cracked corn or wheat.

No use attracting few birds as you'll end up receiving none, when a wider variety of bird food must be used in an open to all songbirds window bird feeder dish.

While all this is going on there's no time to waste when you can begin to plant native wildflowers in a window box; or plant seed, sap or nectar filled flowers in a planter directly below the window.

Better views are when birds come to your window in a window box mind you, whereas a planter can be obstructed as it sits on the ground a few feet below the window.

All you have to do now is sit back and relax, while hopefully a few birds can be attracted to your window in only a few days after setting up the whole thing.

Bird feed on window sill

How to begin your journey in attracting popular songbirds or less common backyard birds to your window, will always begin with bird food of course.

Now this applies to a window with a window sill, or else you'd have to skip ahead to read up about window bird feeders.

How to invite wild birds to your window sill will be with a mix of mostly bird seeds.

Prioritize sunflower seeds scattered along the window sill, while mixing it up with other seed mixes, peanuts and why not a handful of dried mealworms.

Why not go the extra mile by attracting mostly insect-eating birds like Bluebirds with live mealworms - providing sunflower seeds continue to be available to other birds.

A window sill will act as a kind of open to all bird feeder dish, with a row of popular bird food lining to window sill shelf.

Better still is to pick a window that is in direct sunshine, as birds like to feed in the sun.

Place bird food on the window sill while continuing to offer bird food in bird feeders hanging only a few feet away from your window.

In fact you may be forced to empty bird feeders to encourage your regular birds to the window - rather than them continuing to use bird feeders while ignoring the window sill.

Attract birds with window bird feeder

What I believe is the best way to attract birds to a window is with use of a window bird feeder stuck to the glass.

I can assure you while there are risks, to stick a window bird feeder on glass creates a solid, strong bond; in which it would be impossible for even a lighter, half-empty window bird feeder collapsing to the ground.

With that in mind window bird feeders are safe to use providing the suction cups are clean, and so too is the glass window its going to be stuck on.

Attract birds to an open dish style bird feeder as this can allow most backyard birds to feed off it, while there is an option to hang up regular bird feeders off a type of window bird feeder hanger.

If hanging regular seed bird feeders off a hanger with suction cups then use what seeds are compatible with this feeder - as sunflower seeds may not filter as well in a regular clear tube seed feeder.

What kind of bird food you must prioritize in a window bird feeder is sunflower seeds most of all - followed up by your run of the mill common but affordable bird seed mixes.

You can attract birds to your window with use of a window bird feeder that may or may not work in the time its stuck to the window exterior.

How this will benefit you is you'd get an up close view of common songbirds perched on the rim of this lightweight clear plastic window bird feeder dish, providing there's no obstacles obstructing your view at the time.

Flower filled window planter

Rather than rely on bird food you purchased for use on a window sill or to pop in a window bird feeder - why not rely on nature to take its course.

What you can do to attract birds to your window, or should I say on a window sill or near by only - is with use of native wildflowers planted below your window.

Location of window to plant any of these flowers, including nectar filled flowers to attract Hummingbirds close to your window, must be in direct sunshine at all times.

You'd therefore need a south, south/east facing window, whereby a north facing window will probably remain in the shade all day.

Possible place to plant wildflowers is in a window box mounted on your window sill, or simply plant flowers in a wooden box full of soil under the window, on the ground.

Kinds of flowers you can plant under your window if in direct sunshine are the following:

• Sunflowers - Favorite of many common backyard birds as the sunflower seeds can be eaten by Bluebirds, Goldfinches, Jays, Cardinals, Titmouse and many more
• Coneflowers - Popular with birds and butterflies, with Blue Jays, Cardinals and Goldfinches eating the coneflower seeds
• Cornflowers - Filled with nectar, seeds and sap can attract birds, bees and insects, with Goldfinches among them
• Black-Eyed Susans - Big favorite of Goldfinches with Cardinals, Chickadees, Nuthatches and Sparrows being attracted to this variety

• Daisies - Readily available garden flowers will attract Finches, Northern Cardinals, Towhees and Sparrows
• Asters - Attract Goldfinches, Chickadees, Sparrows, Northern Cardinals and many more species
• Marigolds - Can attract anything from Crows to Grackles
• Virginia Creepers - Attract Mockingbirds, Nuthatches, Woodpeckers and Blue Jays
• Elderberries - Fruit baring plant to attract Brown Thrashers
• Staghorn Sumac - autumn, winter to attract Robins, Thrushes, Cardinals and Chickadees

I highly advise you to be sure to plant sunflowers as they have the widest range of bird species it can attract; while other plants can be mixed in including those that only nectar eating birds can feed off.

Keep it quiet at all times

How you will attract birds to your living room window is with bird food taking up the slack, whereas there is some responsibility that relies upon you.

You'd therefore have to keep it quiet on the inside of the window so more timid wild birds feel safe coming to perch on a window sill or land on a window bird feeder - or else any noise or disturbance will keep them well away.

Patience is needed to attract birds to a window thus bird food may have to be replaced even before you get your first visitor.

However all this time wasted can lead you to giving up or forgetting there's birds to be attracted to your window - and remember you must keep it quiet at all times.

Sun hitting your window can actually darken it in the inside, thus you or anyone in the family while n the house would be difficult to be noticed by birds, which is a bonus.

With that in mind you can continue to go about your business while prioritizing quieter times early in the morning when birds come to feed, or throughout the morning when your backyard is at its busiest.

Not just in the home mind you as you'd need to not disturb wild birds by being outside near to where the bird food is.

This applies to anyone in your family including children or dogs that are let out to pee.

Let birds know danger ahead

Once you've refined your window sill or window bird feeders with all their favorite bird food in use, hopefully in time you'd begin to see interest at the window.

What you must be mindful about is birds will come into contact with the window as they feed. What this can lead to is birds actually flying into the glass while causing serious internal injuries.

You'd now have to protect birds before you open for business by sticking tape on the glass exterior to let birds know a panel of glass is ahead of them.

South facing windows can create an effective reflection that can allow you to see out of the window, while people or wildlife can only see their reflection.

Bad for birds then because the reflection in the window can appear to be more yard, thus birds will crash into a window believing its an entrance to an extended backyard.

To be safe, can I ask you to stick anything from bunting, sticky notes, colorful tape or anything else that can be stuck to a window - too be used before birds can be attracted to your window.

How this helps is the colorful sticky stationary will indicate to the birds there's an invisible panel of glass there, so there's no passage beyond the colorful tape.

With that you'd need to set out the sticky stationary in a grid like pattern - prioritizing a square foot or two surrounding a window bird feeder if in use - or do this over the whole exterior window to be extra cautious when birds feed outside the window.

Conclusion

How to attract birds to your window is with what they can be attracted to in the first place, namely bird food which must contain the favorites, to invite as many species as possible.

Prioritize sunflower seeds along with seed mixes containing other seed varieties, which also include fillers such as nut meat, cracked corn and wheat even.

Bird food can be placed along your window sill if yours has some width to it, though a shallow window sill can still be a good thing to use as it means birds must feed even closer to the glass.

View of birds feeding on a window sill can be a little unobstructed as window sills are usually a few inches below the window level, thus you may have to stand up to observe.

What else is very effective at attracting birds to your window is the use of a specialty window bird feeder dish, filled with bird seeds, nuts and dried mealworms.

If you like you can use what is a window bird feeder hanger; you can hang your normal seed feeder currently in possession - to take off the branch or bracket it resides on to then hang off a stuck to the window bracket instead.

You don't have to rely on popular bird food to attract birds to a window mind, although it does help for many of you.

Why use bird food when you can feed naturally grown wildflowers containing the seeds, sap or nectar that birds feed on.

Grow native wildflowers on a window sill box, or plant them in a planter directly below the window.

In the meantime keep things quiet as to not scare birds off, while sticking colorful tape on the window to prevent birds accidentally crashing into the glass window.

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