Attracting warblers:Natural food and water are key to luring the colorful

摘要

In the 37 years I've lived along a major migration route, I've attracted about half a dozen kinds of warblers to my suet, jelly, and orange feeders. The visits have been few and far between and only during severe cold spells during spring migration. In other words, bird feeders are not the best way to attract warblers, at least not directly.Although warblers only rarely visit feeders, a regular procession of them passes through my yard every spring and again from mid-July through early October. My yard is hardly unique: warblers migrate through, or at least over, just about every backyard inAmerica on their way from the northern forests of Canada, Alaska, and other northern states down to the southern U.S. and on to the tropics. The warblers in my yard aren't merely flying overhead, though. A great many stop to feed, drink, and rest.