Earn Double Points! 02/20 thru 02/24

Shop during our Daily Savings Club Double Points Event and double-up! Instead of your usual $10 Bird Buck with every $200 in purchases, you'll receive a $10 Bird Buck for every $100 you spend, good for a future purchase. Hurry in for double the points, double the fun!

DSC Double Points*

*For DSC members only. Valid in-store at the participating store(s) listed or by shopping online. Valid only at participating store(s) listed. One discount per purchase. Offer not valid with other discounts or on previous purchases. Offer valid thru 02/24/2025.

Offer SuperSuet®, the Best Nutrition for Winter Bird Feeding

Seasons may change, but your backyard birds have one constant need: a diet rich in fat and protein. Especially important this time of year, our exclusive SuperSuet® foods are crafted with our highest levels of fat and protein to help birds power through winter's challenges. Add SuperSuet to your yard and enjoy watching the wide variety of birds that will stop by for a nutritious boost.

15% OFF SuperSuet Products*
DSC Members get an additional 5% OFF

Promo Code: SUPERSUET

*Valid in-store at the participating store(s) listed or by shopping online. One discount per purchase. Offer not valid on previous purchases or sale items. Offer valid thru 2/25/2025.

Participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count

February is National Bird Feeding Month, and there's no better way to celebrate than participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), February 14-17. The GBBC connects bird enthusiasts from around the world to observe and record data on more than 7,000 bird species, providing crucial insights into bird populations and their changing habitats.

Whether you’re a seasoned birder or new to the hobby, participating in GBBC is easy and rewarding. Simply set up your feeders, watch the birds that visit and count them. It can be a fun activity for your family, a project for your kids or grandkids or even an educational experience for a classroom. Every bird you count and report helps shape a snapshot of birds’ well-being.

Visit www.birdcount.org to become a citizen scientist and participate in the GBBC. Be sure to shop now to get everything you need to attract a wide variety of birds and ensure your backyard is buzzing with activity during the count.

Throw a Party for Your Cardinals. We'll Bring the Confetti!

Whether your yard is covered with a beautiful blanket of snow or it's just a drab winter's day, a visit from a Northern Cardinal always brightens the mood. Offer our exclusive Cardinal Confetti™ Blend formulated to attract cardinals, Pyrrhuloxia, and a variety of other birds. It's loaded with high-fat seeds, Bark Butter® Bits, dried mealworms and peanuts. Shop now for foods and feeders from our Cardinal Collection and get the party started!

Cardinal Confetti

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Give Birds a Super Winter

Winter is a wonderful time to feed the birds. Not only is a chance to help birds get the necessary fats for surviving longer nights and colder temperatures, but it's also a good time to see a variety of birds visiting you're feeders. Our Winter SuperBlend® is a high-fat seed blend, specifically formulated to provide birds the essential energy and fats needed to survive whatever winter throws at them.

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Offer Water to Help Birds Survive Winter

Water is very important to birds for drinking and bathing - even in winter. Clean feathers help birds stay warm and having access to a bird bath can be critical during colder weather. Research has shown that a chickadee with well-maintained feathers can sustain a 70°F (21°C) layer of insulation between the outside air and its skin.

Plus, adding a dependable water source to your yard is one of the easiest ways to greatly increase the variety of birds in your yard. That means more joy for you!

During freezing weather, use a heated bird bath to ensure that birds have a reliable, open source of water.

We offer a variety of bird baths and bird bath accessories that will attract more birds to your yard, and help the birds survive winter. Shop now!

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Helping to Tame Winter for Your Birds

A high fat diet…the medical books say it’s just not good for us.

Well, it’s a good thing that birds can’t read! Because a diet high in fat is an absolute necessity for many of them to be able to survive the rigors of winter.

For birds, fat is fuel. It is the most concentrated energy source that a bird can consume and it is the only dietary component that is absorbed completely intact by their body. Stored body fat is the primary energy supply that fuels a bird throughout the winter.

Keeping warm is costly. A bird expends about 60% of its energy generating body heat. To stay warm, songbirds may use up 75-80% of their fat reserves during a single winter’s night. That’s equivalent to shedding, and then replacing 10% of their weight in the form of body fat, every twenty-four hours.

Even in areas lacking bitter temperatures, the most overlooked winter survival challenge for birds is having to endure the long period of darkness during the night. While roosting, a small songbird needs to sustain itself for 13-15 hours, solely by using its fat reserves for fuel.

For these birds, the daily challenge is to find enough food to not only make it through each day, but to also replace their fat reserves for the coming night -- all in the course of limited daylight hours.

So, this is where you come in.

Have you noticed how ravenously the birds eat at your bird feeders during the winter, especially first thing in the morning and just before dusk? Your birds are probably taking full advantage of the high-fat foods you are offering to quickly replenish their much needed fat reserves.

High fat foods are a critical necessity that you can provide your birds to help them survive the challenges of winter. By providing a reliable source of these foods, such as all types of suet, Winter SuperBlend® SuperSuet® and Bark Butter® products, you can truly make winter a little tamer for your backyard birds.

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FEBRUARY NATURE HAPPENINGS

• Be a Citizen Scientist and participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count, Friday 2/14 – Monday 2/17, www.birdsource.org/gbbc

• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pf

• Be a Citizen Scientist and participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count, Friday 2/14 – Monday 2/17, www.birdsource.org/gbbc

• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw

• February is National Bird Feeding Month

• Listen for the mating calls of many songbirds such as the Black-capped Chickadee and Northern Cardinal, signaling the onset of mating season.

• Migration is beginning: Killdeer, Red-winged Blackbirds, Great Blue Herons, Grackles, begin showing up at feeders and around ponds and lakes.

• Listen for the “Who, Who, Who cooks for you?” call of the Barred Owl or the soft whinnies and trills of the Eastern Screech Owl

• Barred Owls, Barn Owls and Eastern Screech Owls are courting, do you have nesting boxes up?

• Bluebird, Purple Martin Houses and other nest boxes need to be cleaned out this month. Begin mounting new nesting boxes, for all cavity nesting birds.

• Look for early waterfowl migrants at Lake Frederick and Abrams Creek, such as Bufflehead, Common Goldeneyes and Redheads as lakes thaw.

• Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are working the trees late in the month, and the maple syrup is beginning to run. Schedule a trip to Highland County, Virginia in early March for the Maple Syrup Festival.

• Skunk Cabbage flowers are emerging, generating heat to melt the frozen ground surrounding them.

• Common chickweed appears.

• Eastern Grey Squirrels are having their first litter this month.

• Raccoon, woodchuck, beaver, skunk, opossum and rabbit mating seasons.

• Hibernating butterflies (Morning Cloak, Comma) emerge on warm days.