Hurry in for your copy of the 2025 Wild Birds Unlimited Calendar

The 2025 Wild Birds Unlimited Calendar features a beautiful North American bird every month of the year. The photos are from the 2024 BirdSpotter photo contest, run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Wild Birds Unlimited is a proud sponsor of the BirdSpotter photo contest.

For a limited time, the calendar is FREE for all Daily Savings Club®️ members! Don’t miss this opportunity to add nature and beauty to your day. Visit the store soon to get your copy, while supplies last.

FREE* 2025 WBU Calendar for DSC Members, No Purchase Necessary

*For DSC members only. Valid only at participating store(s) listed. One per member. Offer valid in-store only. While supplies last. Offer valid thru 11/18/2024. 

 

Club Members Save All Year Long
On the Freshest Bird Food in Town

As a member of our Daily Savings Club®, for your annual membership fee, you receive these benefits*:

15% OFF regular prices of all bird food every day.
5% OFF bird food sales prices.
$10 Bird Buck coupon for every $200 purchased throughout the store.
Members-only specials
It's a great way to make your birds happy and save money, too!

FREE Gift* When You Join the Club

*Join our Daily Savings Club and receive a FREE gift, along with the member benefits outlined above. Membership is valid only at your local WBU Home Store where the membership is purchased. One gift per DSC membership. Not valid with other discounts or previous purchases.

 

Winter Blend Seed and Seed Cylinders are back!

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.

 

Preston the Penguin Seed Cylinder

Available for a limited time only, our adorable Preston the Penguin Seed Cylinder is a mix of sunflower, safflower, pecans, sunflower chips, peanuts, apricot, papaya and blueberries. Preston is the perfect addition to any yard and a great gift idea for the nature lovers on your list.

Seed Cylinders are an easy way to offer your birds a wide variety of food to get lots of birds to visit your backyard. And it's convenient, too. Just set one out and watch. Try offering a No-Mess Seed Cylinder on a Seed Cylinder Feeder and watch your birds chow down.

Come see all our Seed Characters in the store now!

 

NOVEMBER NATURE HAPPENINGS

• Project Feeder Watch starts Saturday, November 14, and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw. Feeders get busier as the month progresses. Keep them full to attract migrants coming down from the north. Visit: https://feederwatch.org/

• To attract migrants, spread Bark Butter on the trunks of trees. Over 140 birds throughout North America are attracted to Bark Butter.

• Is this an irruption year? Start looking for new fall/winter visitors to your feeders such as Pine Siskin, Purple Finches and Red-breasted Nuthatches, Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Nashville and Yellow-rumped Warblers.

• Live in the forest? Check the tree trunks for Brown Creepers moving down scouring for insects. Usually they go for the biggest tree trunk available.

• Hummingbird feeders still filled? You never can predict who will be coming to your feeder. Watch for the Rufous Hummingbird traveling from Alaska through December.

• Going to Hawk Mountain in November? This month is peak migration for Golden Eagles, Red-tailed Hawks and Rough-legged Hawks.

• Waterfowl migration peaks this month. Lake Frederick and Abrams Creek will be a good area to spot Tundra Swans, American Widgeons, Gadwalls, Buffleheads, Hooded Mergansers and Ruddy Ducks. At the end of the month, look for Green-winged Teals.

• Listen for the Winter Wren singing in the morning when the sun crests the horizon.

• Open water is important if there's an early freeze. Put out heated bird baths for a winter water source.

• Witch-Hazel, also known as “winter Bloom” is the last shrub to bloom this year. Its exploding seed pods attract many birds. Sweet William and some thistles are also still in bloom.

• Persimmons ripen - delicious when ripe, astringent when unripe.

• Peak of deer breeding season, through December. Use caution while driving.

• Woodchucks, chipmunks, bears and bats will begin their hibernation throughout the month depending on climate conditions.

• Beavers are very active in the evenings while caching a winter supply of food.

SPECIAL DATES
• November 1, Daylight Savings Time ends ~ set clocks back 1 hour.

• November 3, Election Day.

• November 10, the planet Mercury will be seen low in the eastern sky just before sunrise.

• November 11, Veterans Day.

• November 11-12, Taurids meteor shower peaks, best viewing is just after midnight away from city lights. The thin crescent moon will set early for a good viewing.

• November 14, Project FeederWatch begins and runs thru April 2021.

• November 15, New Moon.

• November 16-17, Leonid meteor shower peaks, best time to watch between midnight and dawn.

• November 26, Thanksgiving. The last Thursday in the month of November was declared by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to be a “Day of Thanksgiving”.

• November 30, Full Moon - called the “Beaver Moon”, as this was the time Native America Indians and early settlers set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. This full Moon was also called the “Frost Moon”, for obvious reasons.

INTERESTING HISTORICAL DATES…What do a mouse, woodpecker, squirrel and moose have in common? They all made it to the Silver Screen or Television during the month of November.
• November 11, 1940, Woody Woodpecker, America’s favorite woodpecker, debuts on the silver screen.

• November 18, 1928, Mickey Mouse hits the silver screen as Steamboat Willie.

• November 19, 1959, Rocket (Rocky) J Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose debuts on TV

 

 

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