Attract the Season's Busiest Birds to Your Backyard
It’s prime time for attracting finches of all kinds to your backyard. Goldfinches are still busy nesting and raising young, making reliable food sources especially important. House Finches arrive in lively flocks, with juveniles learning the ropes of feeder life.
Shop Wild Birds Unlimited to be sure you have the right foods and feeders for a front-row seat to one of the season’s most cheerful backyard shows.
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As nesting season winds down and molting season begins, birds require extra energy to replace feathers and maintain healthy body condition. Our exclusive FeatherPro™ SuperBlend® is specially formulated with essential protein and fats to support feather growth and development. Shop Wild Birds Unlimited for the foods birds need during this demanding time.
We are Looking for a Part-time Sales Associate to Join Our Team.
We have an immediate opening for an outgoing, energetic sales associate with great people skills to work 16-20 hours per week. Ultimate responsibility is to work with our sales team to create an unsurpassed customer experience. We offer a great work environment, competitive wages and a store discount for our staff.
The difference between Wild Birds Unlimited and other retailers goes far beyond what we sell. It's who we are. Enthusiasm, professionalism, informed advice and superior customer service are the hallmarks of our staff.
Our Sales Associates work with other staff, including the owner, to bring to life the store’s mission – “We Bring People and Nature Together®…And We Do It With Excellence!” To that end, we provide training with regard to backyard bird feeding, bird watching and product knowledge.
Requirements:
- Previous retail experience preferred, but not required.
- Basic knowledge of backyard birds preferred, but not required.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds of seed and merchendise.
- Weekend work (Saturday / Sunday) with a monthly flexible weekend schedule.
- Our goal is to provide quality products, service, expertise and a high energy shopping experience. Help customers bring nature into their own backyards and lives. Come join our team!
To download an Employment Application click here. WILD BIRDS UNLIMITED EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION
Please submit a resume with application to Wild Birds Unlimited
located in Creekside Station, Winchester.
Wild Birds Unlimited® is the first and largest franchise system of retailing stores catering to the backyard nature enthusiast throughout North America. "We Bring People and Nature Together" is our mission and the very heart of our retail concept. From the day we opened the door of our first Wild Birds Unlimited store in 1981, our goal was to provide quality products, service, expertise and a pleasant shopping experience. You too could work at a Wild Birds Unlimited store and help customers bring nature into their own backyard and lives!
Birds pictured are representative of the many North American species that migrate. Ask us which birds are migrating in our area.
Plant a Tree, Save the Song Birds
Birds and trees go hand in hand. Trees aren’t just part of the landscape, they’re lifelines for birds. They provide shelter in every season, safe nesting sites in spring and an endless buffet of insects that nourish adults and their hungry offspring. Simply put: more trees = more birds.
Habitat loss is the biggest factor for the decline in bird populations. That's why Wild Birds Unlimited has partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to restore critical forest habitats across the US and Canada. Together, we’re planting thousands of native trees that will benefit not only today’s birds, but generations to come.
You can be part of the solution right in your own backyard. Planting a single native tree creates food, cover and nesting opportunities for local birds, while also making your environment healthier and more vibrant. Join our mission to #SaveTheSongBirds and help nature thrive, one tree at a time. Learn more at www.wbu.com/plant-trees.
Prevent Window Strikes and Help Save the Song Birds
Here’s a harsh truth: colliding with windows can be fatal for birds. Even if they manage to fly away, they're not just “stunned,” birds are often seriously injured. Windows reflecting sky or greenery trick birds into thinking there’s a clear flight path, and juvenile birds (who are just figuring things out) are especially at risk.
Preventing window strikes is one way you can help Save the Song Birds. With a few thoughtful adjustments, you can help birds recognize your windows as barriers, not passage ways.
- Feeder Placement: Place bird feeding stations within three feet (1 meter) of the window or beyond ten feet (3 meters). Within three feet, birds ‘fleeing’ the feeder area will not have built up enough speed to injure themselves if they strike the window. Beyond ten feet, birds will have enough time to spot and avoid the window.
- Visual Cues: Apply deterrents to your windows (such as screens or decals) to help birds see the barrier and give them a chance to take action before any harm is done.
- Install a Window Feeder: Use a window feeder to make birds more aware of the glass and so you have a front-row seat to watch your feathered visitors.
Go here to learn more, or stop by the store and we’ll walk you through the best ways to wipe out window strikes.
Go here to purchase window decals online
Wild Birds Unlimited in Winchester is your source for high quality Zeis Optics. With exceptional optical performance, these are perfect for bird watchers and all nature lovers.
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AUGUST NATURE HAPPENINGS
As the amount of daylight decreases, migration sets into full swing.
•Visit Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania for the Fall raptor migration. Autumn Hawkwatch begins this month, go to: https://www.hawkmountain.org/
•Peak migration for Barn Swallows.
•Flocks of nighthawks can be seen late in the month.
•Early warblers (Cape May, Tennessee, Magnolia, Blackburnian) migrate through the area.
•Purple Martins will begin gathering and roosting in trees and around water, preparing for their 5000 mile migration to Brazil this month. Don’t close the Purple Martin houses as juveniles are scouting nesting cavities for 2021.
•Chimney Swifts can be seen in large flocks over chimneys at dusk.
•American Goldfinches finish nesting late this month. Prepare for an abundance of Goldfinches towards the end of the month.
•Second brood of hummingbirds begins to appear at feeders early - to mid-month.
•Adult Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are putting on fat in preparation of migration.
•Hummingbird migration begins in Canada, mid-month. Get your feeders cleaned and filled for migrating visitors during the next several months.
•Month of the spider – their numbers and webs peak, as many reach maturity.
•Peak month for summer wildflowers to bloom: Asters, Thistle, Gentian, Sneezeweed and Lobelias are blooming.
•American Pokeweed berries are maturing. Their dark purplish berries are toxic to livestock and humans, but a favorite of birds.
•Squirrels give birth to their second brood.
•Missing bark on your trees? Deer are shedding the velvet off their antlers and rubbing their antlers on low branches.