This weekend marks the official start of summer. Why not welcome the warm weather (fingers crossed) by inviting some wild life into your life? Today's Top Five includes my favourite online finds for the style (not necessarily type) of bird you hope to attract.
Luxurious Bird Living
This gazebo feeder from the Home Depot is perfect for those refined feathered friends who are used to enjoying their seed on a nice covered balcony.
Yule-Hyde Associates Gazebo Wood Feeder, $29.99, Home Depot.
Earth Friendly Feeder
This green buffet for birds is made from recycled plastic. The top portion, as you can probably tell, used to be a pop bottle. Canadian green lifestyle store, Green Cricket, sells the Terracycle feeder full of wild bird feed for those earth-minded flocks in your neighbourhood.
Terracycle Bird Feeder, $9.99, Green Cricket.
A Day at the Spa
For the birdies who brunch, Blomus' Fuera bird feeder and bath easily transforms from bistro to spa with the addition of a small round wooden platform for birds to sun themselves on after a dip.
Blomus Fuera Bird Feeder/Bird Bath, $131 USD, Unica Home.
Party Animals
With perches for 24 attendees, this "Finches' Favourite" feeder holds 3 lbs of nyjer seed for quite the raucous fowl fete.
Finches' Favourite Feeder, $49.95, For the Birds Nature Shop.
Birds on the Go
For the bird who never stops moving (hummingbirds flap or beat their wings 60 to 80 times per second) these sweet little flowers are the perfect pit stop. The hand-blown glass feeders are designed to resemble real blooms and entice pretty hummingbirds into your garden.
Glass Flower Hummingbird Feeders, $24.50 for one, $22.80 each for three or more, Lee Valley Tools.
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