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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. It's
time to get a little update with our wild birds.
And you know who we're gonna talk to. She knows
more about wild birds than wild birds know about wild birds.
As a matter of fact, if you're having a party
at your house, invite her over and she'll go outside,
stand on your patio and put her arms out to
her sides. She'll look on a Saint Francis statue and
the birds land all over her, on her shoulders, her head.
(00:23):
And you know what, they don't poop on her. They
just enjoy having her there. She is the us, just
like the grand Poopa of all of the birds from
wild Birds Unlimited, our wild wing wonder Monica Rubaker.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The morning, Thank you, get all.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Those birds, all those birds lined up on the ledges
this morning, looking in the windows. She's gonna be on
there she oh yeah, pecking on the womens. Monica Brubaker,
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yes, good to see you, good to talk to you. Yes,
I'm very good.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Thank you can image you're seeing me? I imagine I when
I'm talking to people, I see you. So yeah, there
there you go, all right, right off the bat website
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
WBU dot com, slash Westchester or Springbar.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There you go, and lots of great information on there
for you as well. You guys still doing classes and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, we're doing Yeah, walks and talks we've got coming up.
Let's see Raptors Inc. Is going to be visiting us
on October twelfth. Oh cool with Yeah, with some owls.
So they're going to be talking about owls.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, look at look on the website and there's a
link that shows all of our walks and talks. We
updated regularly and there will be things, you know, throughout
the year. Sure, we don't just do it in the summer.
We you know, continue to have things available throughout so yeah, excellent.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
All right, let's take a look at our wild Words
out there. I don't know how often you get a
chance to listen to our show because you're always traveling
learning more about birds around the country. But had an
eagle in our backyard about a month and a half. Yeah,
it was the greatest.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Thing ever, just hanging out.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well, it was, it was until a big a murder
of crows. I guess that's what they're called. Oh yeah,
took off after it and chased it over to the fields.
We get him every now and then in our nursery.
We'll see him by the lakes, up in the trees.
But this came out. It was a younger one. This
one came out from the wood right behind our house,
and I had just gotten home, swept down across the
(02:37):
lawn and I was like, what I like an airplane,
And it was like, what the heck is? Oh my gosh,
And I went outside and went back up on the top.
And then when trotted over our house, I went out
the front door. Of course, I don't have my cell
phone with me, right and I'm looking and I don't
see it. I look back and it's sitting on top
of our roof on this bricked divider, and he's sitting
(02:59):
really still, and I put my hand up because the
sun was out, to look at him. And then he
took off again and flew and then went back to
the woods. And then all of a sudden, I hear
all these crows going nuts, and I look out and
I can see them on his tail as he's flying
back across his field, headed like southeast or so. It
was absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yes, you love it when that happens.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh yeah, they were all over it. I mean, and
they were on him too. They didn't mess around, but
that thing was so big it was phenomenal. So see,
I never see orioles in my yard, but I get
an eagle, I'll take it. Oh I had goosebumps, I'm
(03:46):
telling you, and I still get goosebumps.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Tell the story.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So we've gone through. Uh, we're in a bit of
a drought right now in our area. It's been it's
been hot. Uh we cooled down, which has been nice
over the last couple of weeks, but very very dry.
How is this affecting both our birds that hang out
all the year, and then of course the migratory birds
are now starting to move through. I'm assuming.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They are, Yes, they are. The there's lots of warblers
coming through right now. You know, if you've got a
bird bath, you've probably noticed that. You know, the activity
there has definitely picked up, I mean because they are
searching for the water. But you know, it affects of course,
you know, with leaves dropping and berries. You know, there's
(04:35):
a lot of natural food out right now, and it
may be dropping early, but there's lots out there for them.
So your feeders may actually slow down. But depending on
what you know, you're migrating birds are coming through, it
might be very busy at any given time, so so
(04:56):
keep them going.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So, you know, right now we start to see an
increase and monarch butterflies in our area as they're starting
to yeah, migrate south. A lot of folks that haven't
seen them, like all of a sudden, they're here. So
you know, everybody scrambling to get milkweed out and things
like that to help them along. So as we're looking
at migratory birds, and they're a very very important part
(05:17):
in course, they're they're they're you know, the losses of
birds have been phenomenal, just like pollinators. They're on this
journey as well. Should o our seed mixes and our
feeders change a little bit right now to kind of
compensate for all the different types of birds that are
moving through, or or should we do anything specific or
just stick with what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I think that adding millet to your mix right now,
a light a light blend, you know, with a light
a little bit of millet isn't a bad idea. Throughout
the fall, we've got ground feeders that are coming in.
We'll have more ground feeders during the fall in the
winter than any other time of year. So you know,
(05:59):
you and watch for junkos and white crowned, white throated
sparrows and they will eat off the ground. So but
don't you know, the millet has to be somewhat controlled
in our area because it does attract our non native
sparrows that can be very aggressive. So just a light
(06:20):
mix of millet is good, you know, and even putting
out a ground feeder is a good idea.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now when you say a ground theater, for somebody that's
not familiar, what is a ground feeder?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Well, you know, we've got feeders that actually do sit
on the ground because some birds don't like to go
up to go up to feeders and they stay on
the ground for it. So then it becomes open to
of course our friends squirrels, raccoons. But the beauty of
what we have at wild Birds Unlimited is we have
(06:52):
a seed that is hot pepper seed. It's got hot
pepper and mammals like you and I, squirrels, raccoons taste
hot pepper that birds do not, So you can, you know,
put your feeders with hot pepper and and it'll be
just for your birds. And that was a great option.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Is that a that's available? I know you sell wild
Birds unlimited, you sell see that's pre coded with with
that caps station. But can you buy that and do
it yourself too?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well? The thing is is that what we have is
extremely hot. You know, there's different levels right of rod,
so what you would use number one is probably not.
I mean, you know you don't want it to be
airborne to get in your eyes or anything else. So yeah,
sure you can and you can try it, but you
(07:48):
know you're going to be better off just buying it
and already mixed and no problems with it being airborne.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You know, that's been that's been around now for seems
very consistent for several years as being a good repellent
for the mammals, the raccoons and the squirrels. I mean,
I think that's become pretty much the go to now
right for keeping the keeping the squirrels out.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I mean, it definitely is. And I know a
lot of people get concerned about, you know, the feeding
of hot pepper, but wild birds, you know, that's what
we do. We make sure we guarantee it's going to
be safe for your birds. It's you know, not going
to harm them or your squirrels and raccoons. They may
(08:33):
taste it, okay, you know, they may try it, but
it's certainly not going to harm them. So yeah, it
is a viable option. There's other ways, well, we can
keep the squirrels and raccoons off.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You caught that there are other ways. Let's take a break.
We got more with Monica brew Bakers. Here is our
wild Winged Wonder from wild Birds Unlimited. We'll find out
what some of those other options are and what we
should be doing for our birds as we start to
cruise into the fall season. Here in the Garden with
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Speaker 1 (10:25):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson. We're
talking birds with our wild Winged Wonder from wild Birds
Unlimited Monica Brubaker. And you know one of the things
that I know you. I bet you guys get asked
this every day at least once in your outlets. What
do I do about the squirrels? And I know they
drive just dry people nuts.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They do.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And right now we grow those little mini decorative pumpkins
and they're into those big time. They have just destroyed,
which tells me twofold. I was trying to explain to
my wife. One is it's really dry out and they're
looking for moisture. So if they find that moisture, they're
in and maybe that's going to be a tough winner.
Who knows, Maybe that's a little mother nature predictor there.
(11:06):
They're jumping into those already. But birds are the same way.
So you've got to, as you said earlier, keep that
water going so important. Bird feeders may not be on
there quite as much right now because the supply naturally
is good, but you still want to keep the bird
feeder going.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Definitely that you know. No, right now it's a good time,
you know, to like reevaluate your whole setup there out there,
you know, have you got everything set up as you
want it. We've got great pole systems you know that
allow you to hang your feeders in multiple different ways.
(11:45):
You know, clean your feeders, bring your feeders in, get
them a good wash, you know, put them back out.
We're having a feeder swap coming up mid October where
you bring your old feeders in and we're going to
give you twenty percent off on a new feeder. Cool,
so you know, kind of evaluate what's.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Going on and again get working my way towards the
squirrel issue. As far as the squirrel proof bird feeders
and ways, there are ways to get around them, there are.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And you know, so much of it has to do
with placement. I mean, we do have squirrel proof feeders
themselves that work, They really do work. But in terms
of hanging a feeder out and keeping a squirrel off
of that, you know, it's a matter of placement and
then you know the use of baffles so that they
(12:39):
can't climb up to get to your feeders. But it
can be done. Everybody says, now it can I've tried everything. Well,
you know, come on in, We're going to talk to
you and you know, help you out because it can
be without the use of you know, hot pepper.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, it can be done, says Monica Brubaker, And she
is our wild winged wonder And if anybody knows that
it can be done, it would be Monica Brewbaker talking
about the birds. So Wildbird's unlimited of course, and they
do such a great job.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Again, your website is WBU dot com slash Westchester or Springboro.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Got a couple of locations for you to check out there.
Of course, wild Birds Unlimited for folks that aren't listening,
are from the Cincinnati area. They're all around.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
They are the what three hundred and eighty store franchise.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Wow, that's all.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, I've been around since nineteen eighty two. So and
Jim Carpenter started it. He's still involved. Yeah, the great
you know, the whole the whole company is just you know,
we want to bring nature to you. And you know
we're not a high sell. We don't try to push
product on you. We're really concerned about your needs. What
(13:50):
do you need, what do you want? And you know
we'll figure out the best solutions for it. So, yeah,
you haven't been in stop in and of course.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Uh, the good thing about Jim is you came up
with the bark butter butts bites butter butter. Yes, yeah,
you got it.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yes, yes, that name is being used synonymously now with
you know, any spread that goes on trees, even though
it is trademarked. But yeah, bark butter is has more
species more a higher species count than any other single
bird food out there. We have it in many forms.
We have it in the spreadable form. We also have
(14:28):
it in nugget form, we have it in suet form.
It's in every form. But yeah, birth love it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
And if you want to feed your robins, you can
get the bites and spreadlows around and they love.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
To eating that.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yes, oh definitely, yeah, yeah they do. That's one thing
robins will will definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I thought of you the other day. I saw you.
I was at a farm store or whatever I saw
for chicken feed. They have those big bags of the mealworms,
and I know you guys sell that too, and the
black soldier flies. I mean, that's becoming a major business.
I was just curious, you know, if you put a
greenhouse in your backyard to start raising black soldier flies
and their larvae.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if your names will like it, but.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Okay, probably not a little bit of a smell there.
Talk about Monica brew Baker. Wild Bird's unlimited. Of course,
we want you to plant and landscape for the birds
as well, and there's many ways to do that and
a lot of a couple great but I keep forgetting
to send you that book. A great couple of great
books out there which I will recommend next week because
I forgot to bring with me today that has a
(15:37):
great But again with wild Birds Unlimited, they're doing all
the other stuff, all the bird feeders and the waterers
and all of the right bird feed and by the way,
Monica brew Baker. As we get into the fall season,
this is when everybody and his brother sells bird seed
or bird feed. I say bird ye feed because you
can't plant the seed and grow birds bird feed, but
(16:00):
everybody's got it. And I can see a fifty pound
bag for two ninety nine and I see a fifty
pound bag for seventy nine ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What's say there's a huge difference. Yeah, you know there's
a lot of fillers and commercial blends, right they throw
the milo is like a red beaby in there, or
it's loaded with millet that I was talking about that's
only really good for certain birds. So you know, our
(16:30):
blends have absolutely no fillers, and it's all the seeds
your bird is going to eat. There's no waste in there,
so it's not apples to apples when you can compare,
for sure, you're getting a much better bang for your
buck with us, so you get.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What you paid for. And of course when you put
it in the feeder and all of a sudden you
hear your birds going cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's how you know.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's how you know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But you also know is when all your bird food
ends up on the ground, Yeah, wondering you know what
the heck? Okay, Well that's because they don't. They're not
going to eat it, and it's going to grow pretty
weeds for you. So yeah, yeah, you can feed what
they want and that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
And that's one thing I learned from money. A lot
of the many things I've learned from money a brew baker,
is if all your seeds winding up, bird feeds going
on the on the down on the ground, it's because
they don't like what's in there. They're tossing it all
out of the way. Uh so that doesn't show up.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Another misconception is out there right now, folks buying thistle
seed for their thistle feeders. But the thistle seed that's
in there does not sprout and grow. It's not really
thistle seed. Well it is, but.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Not really our native exactly. Yeah, it's not our native.
It comes in there's only two places that comes from
India and Ethiopia, and it's heat treated, you know, when
it comes into the United States. So it's not going
to start you know, the thistle, the weed, the Yeah,
(18:01):
so it is totally different, two different species.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
If I'm looking at my mix that I'm buying out there,
what do I want to be the prominent seed that
I'm seeing at the top the highest percentage? Is it
the sunflower seed?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah? Look at the ingredient list, you're right, because they're
listing them in order of quantity of volume. Yeah, sunflower
seed definitely. Or you know, anything that's high fat. I mean,
you know, peanuts, you know, even safflower is a relatively
high fat, high protein seed. Yes, and that's what your
(18:39):
birds need and that's what they want watch out for.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
If you don't want to do the bird feeder, an
easy way to do this is the suitcakes and you
can hang those anywhere and they come with such a
different variety and all the different things in the suitcake
that and this is a great time to be feeding
them as you go through the winter. It's a really
easy way to feed the birds and bring them into
your garden.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It is it's going to slow down, Sue, is a
definite slow down, like right now, okay, because of everything
out there in nature. But as soon as we're getting cold,
as we move into November, it's going to start picking up.
And then yes, you know it can't be beat for
fat content and everybody will you eat it. It's just
(19:23):
a matter of them finding it. And you know, having
an effective feeder for suet too. You can hang them
against the trunk of a tree, not dangling out on
a limb. But if you hang them against the trunk
of the tree.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
So that they're nice and stable.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yes, so the stable and not hanging and dangling.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So yeah, got it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Monica Brubaker, always great information, always great having you on here.
The guys here at the towers don't like it because
all the birds are hanging out right now try to
listen to you, but they'll all go away here actually,
one last time, your website.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
WBU dot com, slash Westchester, Springborough stop.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
En c Monica Brewbaker, Wildbird's Unlimited. Thank you so much.
We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Thank you, bick break We.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
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Speaker 3 (20:25):
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Speaker 4 (20:36):
Ron can help at one eight hundred eighty two three
talk This is in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. It's
time to get a little update with our wild birds.
And you know who we're gonna talk to. She knows
more about wild birds than wild birds know about wild birds.
As a matter of fact, if you're having a party
at your house, invite her over and she'll go outside,
stand on your patio and put her arms out to
her sides. She'll look on a Saint Francis statue and
the birds land all over her, on her shoulders, her head.
(00:23):
And you know what, they don't poop on her. They
just enjoy having her there. She is the us, just
like the grand Poopa of all of the birds from
wild Birds Unlimited, our wild wing wonder Monica Rubaker.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The morning, Thank you, get all.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Those birds, all those birds lined up on the ledges
this morning, looking in the windows. She's gonna be on
there she oh yeah, pecking on the womens. Monica Brubaker,
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yes, good to see you, good to talk to you. Yes,
I'm very good.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Thank you can image you're seeing me? I imagine I when
I'm talking to people, I see you. So yeah, there
there you go, all right, right off the bat website
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
WBU dot com, slash Westchester or Springbar.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There you go, and lots of great information on there
for you as well. You guys still doing classes and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, we're doing Yeah, walks and talks we've got coming up.
Let's see Raptors Inc. Is going to be visiting us
on October twelfth. Oh cool with Yeah, with some owls.
So they're going to be talking about owls.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, look at look on the website and there's a
link that shows all of our walks and talks. We
updated regularly and there will be things, you know, throughout
the year. Sure, we don't just do it in the summer.
We you know, continue to have things available throughout so yeah, excellent.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
All right, let's take a look at our wild Words
out there. I don't know how often you get a
chance to listen to our show because you're always traveling
learning more about birds around the country. But had an
eagle in our backyard about a month and a half. Yeah,
it was the greatest.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Thing ever, just hanging out.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well, it was, it was until a big a murder
of crows. I guess that's what they're called. Oh yeah,
took off after it and chased it over to the fields.
We get him every now and then in our nursery.
We'll see him by the lakes, up in the trees.
But this came out. It was a younger one. This
one came out from the wood right behind our house,
and I had just gotten home, swept down across the
(02:37):
lawn and I was like, what I like an airplane,
And it was like, what the heck is? Oh my gosh,
And I went outside and went back up on the top.
And then when trotted over our house, I went out
the front door. Of course, I don't have my cell
phone with me, right and I'm looking and I don't
see it. I look back and it's sitting on top
of our roof on this bricked divider, and he's sitting
(02:59):
really still, and I put my hand up because the
sun was out, to look at him. And then he
took off again and flew and then went back to
the woods. And then all of a sudden, I hear
all these crows going nuts, and I look out and
I can see them on his tail as he's flying
back across his field, headed like southeast or so. It
was absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yes, you love it when that happens.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh yeah, they were all over it. I mean, and
they were on him too. They didn't mess around, but
that thing was so big it was phenomenal. So see,
I never see orioles in my yard, but I get
an eagle, I'll take it. Oh I had goosebumps, I'm
(03:46):
telling you, and I still get goosebumps.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Tell the story.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So we've gone through. Uh, we're in a bit of
a drought right now in our area. It's been it's
been hot. Uh we cooled down, which has been nice
over the last couple of weeks, but very very dry.
How is this affecting both our birds that hang out
all the year, and then of course the migratory birds
are now starting to move through. I'm assuming.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They are, Yes, they are. The there's lots of warblers
coming through right now. You know, if you've got a
bird bath, you've probably noticed that. You know, the activity
there has definitely picked up, I mean because they are
searching for the water. But you know, it affects of course,
you know, with leaves dropping and berries. You know, there's
(04:35):
a lot of natural food out right now, and it
may be dropping early, but there's lots out there for them.
So your feeders may actually slow down. But depending on
what you know, you're migrating birds are coming through, it
might be very busy at any given time, so so
(04:56):
keep them going.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So, you know, right now we start to see an
increase and monarch butterflies in our area as they're starting
to yeah, migrate south. A lot of folks that haven't
seen them, like all of a sudden, they're here. So
you know, everybody scrambling to get milkweed out and things
like that to help them along. So as we're looking
at migratory birds, and they're a very very important part
(05:17):
in course, they're they're they're you know, the losses of
birds have been phenomenal, just like pollinators. They're on this
journey as well. Should o our seed mixes and our
feeders change a little bit right now to kind of
compensate for all the different types of birds that are
moving through, or or should we do anything specific or
just stick with what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I think that adding millet to your mix right now,
a light a light blend, you know, with a light
a little bit of millet isn't a bad idea. Throughout
the fall, we've got ground feeders that are coming in.
We'll have more ground feeders during the fall in the
winter than any other time of year. So you know,
(05:59):
you and watch for junkos and white crowned, white throated
sparrows and they will eat off the ground. So but
don't you know, the millet has to be somewhat controlled
in our area because it does attract our non native
sparrows that can be very aggressive. So just a light
(06:20):
mix of millet is good, you know, and even putting
out a ground feeder is a good idea.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now when you say a ground theater, for somebody that's
not familiar, what is a ground feeder?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Well, you know, we've got feeders that actually do sit
on the ground because some birds don't like to go
up to go up to feeders and they stay on
the ground for it. So then it becomes open to
of course our friends squirrels, raccoons. But the beauty of
what we have at wild Birds Unlimited is we have
(06:52):
a seed that is hot pepper seed. It's got hot
pepper and mammals like you and I, squirrels, raccoons taste
hot pepper that birds do not, So you can, you know,
put your feeders with hot pepper and and it'll be
just for your birds. And that was a great option.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Is that a that's available? I know you sell wild
Birds unlimited, you sell see that's pre coded with with
that caps station. But can you buy that and do
it yourself too?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well? The thing is is that what we have is
extremely hot. You know, there's different levels right of rod,
so what you would use number one is probably not.
I mean, you know you don't want it to be
airborne to get in your eyes or anything else. So yeah,
sure you can and you can try it, but you
(07:48):
know you're going to be better off just buying it
and already mixed and no problems with it being airborne.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You know, that's been that's been around now for seems
very consistent for several years as being a good repellent
for the mammals, the raccoons and the squirrels. I mean,
I think that's become pretty much the go to now
right for keeping the keeping the squirrels out.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I mean, it definitely is. And I know a
lot of people get concerned about, you know, the feeding
of hot pepper, but wild birds, you know, that's what
we do. We make sure we guarantee it's going to
be safe for your birds. It's you know, not going
to harm them or your squirrels and raccoons. They may
(08:33):
taste it, okay, you know, they may try it, but
it's certainly not going to harm them. So yeah, it
is a viable option. There's other ways, well, we can
keep the squirrels and raccoons off.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You caught that there are other ways. Let's take a break.
We got more with Monica brew Bakers. Here is our
wild Winged Wonder from wild Birds Unlimited. We'll find out
what some of those other options are and what we
should be doing for our birds as we start to
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Speaker 1 (10:25):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson. We're
talking birds with our wild Winged Wonder from wild Birds
Unlimited Monica Brubaker. And you know one of the things
that I know you. I bet you guys get asked
this every day at least once in your outlets. What
do I do about the squirrels? And I know they
drive just dry people nuts.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They do.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And right now we grow those little mini decorative pumpkins
and they're into those big time. They have just destroyed,
which tells me twofold. I was trying to explain to
my wife. One is it's really dry out and they're
looking for moisture. So if they find that moisture, they're
in and maybe that's going to be a tough winner.
Who knows, Maybe that's a little mother nature predictor there.
(11:06):
They're jumping into those already. But birds are the same way.
So you've got to, as you said earlier, keep that
water going so important. Bird feeders may not be on
there quite as much right now because the supply naturally
is good, but you still want to keep the bird
feeder going.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Definitely that you know. No, right now it's a good time,
you know, to like reevaluate your whole setup there out there,
you know, have you got everything set up as you
want it. We've got great pole systems you know that
allow you to hang your feeders in multiple different ways.
(11:45):
You know, clean your feeders, bring your feeders in, get
them a good wash, you know, put them back out.
We're having a feeder swap coming up mid October where
you bring your old feeders in and we're going to
give you twenty percent off on a new feeder. Cool,
so you know, kind of evaluate what's.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Going on and again get working my way towards the
squirrel issue. As far as the squirrel proof bird feeders
and ways, there are ways to get around them, there are.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And you know, so much of it has to do
with placement. I mean, we do have squirrel proof feeders
themselves that work, They really do work. But in terms
of hanging a feeder out and keeping a squirrel off
of that, you know, it's a matter of placement and
then you know the use of baffles so that they
(12:39):
can't climb up to get to your feeders. But it
can be done. Everybody says, now it can I've tried everything. Well,
you know, come on in, We're going to talk to
you and you know, help you out because it can
be without the use of you know, hot pepper.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, it can be done, says Monica Brubaker, And she
is our wild winged wonder And if anybody knows that
it can be done, it would be Monica Brewbaker talking
about the birds. So Wildbird's unlimited of course, and they
do such a great job.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Again, your website is WBU dot com slash Westchester or Springboro.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Got a couple of locations for you to check out there.
Of course, wild Birds Unlimited for folks that aren't listening,
are from the Cincinnati area. They're all around.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
They are the what three hundred and eighty store franchise.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Wow, that's all.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, I've been around since nineteen eighty two. So and
Jim Carpenter started it. He's still involved. Yeah, the great
you know, the whole the whole company is just you know,
we want to bring nature to you. And you know
we're not a high sell. We don't try to push
product on you. We're really concerned about your needs. What
(13:50):
do you need, what do you want? And you know
we'll figure out the best solutions for it. So, yeah,
you haven't been in stop in and of course.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Uh, the good thing about Jim is you came up
with the bark butter butts bites butter butter. Yes, yeah,
you got it.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yes, yes, that name is being used synonymously now with
you know, any spread that goes on trees, even though
it is trademarked. But yeah, bark butter is has more
species more a higher species count than any other single
bird food out there. We have it in many forms.
We have it in the spreadable form. We also have
(14:28):
it in nugget form, we have it in suet form.
It's in every form. But yeah, birth love it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
And if you want to feed your robins, you can
get the bites and spreadlows around and they love.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
To eating that.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yes, oh definitely, yeah, yeah they do. That's one thing
robins will will definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I thought of you the other day. I saw you.
I was at a farm store or whatever I saw
for chicken feed. They have those big bags of the mealworms,
and I know you guys sell that too, and the
black soldier flies. I mean, that's becoming a major business.
I was just curious, you know, if you put a
greenhouse in your backyard to start raising black soldier flies
and their larvae.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if your names will like it, but.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Okay, probably not a little bit of a smell there.
Talk about Monica brew Baker. Wild Bird's unlimited. Of course,
we want you to plant and landscape for the birds
as well, and there's many ways to do that and
a lot of a couple great but I keep forgetting
to send you that book. A great couple of great
books out there which I will recommend next week because
I forgot to bring with me today that has a
(15:37):
great But again with wild Birds Unlimited, they're doing all
the other stuff, all the bird feeders and the waterers
and all of the right bird feed and by the way,
Monica brew Baker. As we get into the fall season,
this is when everybody and his brother sells bird seed
or bird feed. I say bird ye feed because you
can't plant the seed and grow birds bird feed, but
(16:00):
everybody's got it. And I can see a fifty pound
bag for two ninety nine and I see a fifty
pound bag for seventy nine ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What's say there's a huge difference. Yeah, you know there's
a lot of fillers and commercial blends, right they throw
the milo is like a red beaby in there, or
it's loaded with millet that I was talking about that's
only really good for certain birds. So you know, our
(16:30):
blends have absolutely no fillers, and it's all the seeds
your bird is going to eat. There's no waste in there,
so it's not apples to apples when you can compare,
for sure, you're getting a much better bang for your
buck with us, so you get.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What you paid for. And of course when you put
it in the feeder and all of a sudden you
hear your birds going cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's how you know.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's how you know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But you also know is when all your bird food
ends up on the ground, Yeah, wondering you know what
the heck? Okay, Well that's because they don't. They're not
going to eat it, and it's going to grow pretty
weeds for you. So yeah, yeah, you can feed what
they want and that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
And that's one thing I learned from money. A lot
of the many things I've learned from money a brew baker,
is if all your seeds winding up, bird feeds going
on the on the down on the ground, it's because
they don't like what's in there. They're tossing it all
out of the way. Uh so that doesn't show up.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Another misconception is out there right now, folks buying thistle
seed for their thistle feeders. But the thistle seed that's
in there does not sprout and grow. It's not really
thistle seed. Well it is, but.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Not really our native exactly. Yeah, it's not our native.
It comes in there's only two places that comes from
India and Ethiopia, and it's heat treated, you know, when
it comes into the United States. So it's not going
to start you know, the thistle, the weed, the Yeah,
(18:01):
so it is totally different, two different species.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
If I'm looking at my mix that I'm buying out there,
what do I want to be the prominent seed that
I'm seeing at the top the highest percentage? Is it
the sunflower seed?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah? Look at the ingredient list, you're right, because they're
listing them in order of quantity of volume. Yeah, sunflower
seed definitely. Or you know, anything that's high fat. I mean,
you know, peanuts, you know, even safflower is a relatively
high fat, high protein seed. Yes, and that's what your
(18:39):
birds need and that's what they want watch out for.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
If you don't want to do the bird feeder, an
easy way to do this is the suitcakes and you
can hang those anywhere and they come with such a
different variety and all the different things in the suitcake
that and this is a great time to be feeding
them as you go through the winter. It's a really
easy way to feed the birds and bring them into
your garden.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It is it's going to slow down, Sue, is a
definite slow down, like right now, okay, because of everything
out there in nature. But as soon as we're getting cold,
as we move into November, it's going to start picking up.
And then yes, you know it can't be beat for
fat content and everybody will you eat it. It's just
(19:23):
a matter of them finding it. And you know, having
an effective feeder for suet too. You can hang them
against the trunk of a tree, not dangling out on
a limb. But if you hang them against the trunk
of the tree.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
So that they're nice and stable.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yes, so the stable and not hanging and dangling.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So yeah, got it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Monica Brubaker, always great information, always great having you on here.
The guys here at the towers don't like it because
all the birds are hanging out right now try to
listen to you, but they'll all go away here actually,
one last time, your website.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
WBU dot com, slash Westchester, Springborough stop.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
En c Monica Brewbaker, Wildbird's Unlimited. Thank you so much.
We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Thank you, bick break We.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Come back phone lines. You're open for you at eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Don't forget
our website, Ron Wilson online dot com. See Rita Hikfel
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Ron Wilson. It's all happening here in the Garden with Ron.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
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Speaker 4 (20:36):
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