Bird Gardening

Seeds & Food for Winter feeding of Birds in the San Antonio Area

	Winter Status**	Black-oil Sunflower	Cracked Corn	Millet	Niger	Peanut Butter Mixes	Suet	Nut meats & Peanuts	Fruit	Pumpkin Seeds	Whole Peanuts(thread on a string)
Chickadees & Titmice	A
Finches	A
Cardinals	A										?
"Native" Sparrows	A
Red-winged Blackbird	A
Jays*	A										?
Woodpeckers	A
Rufus-sided Towhee*	C
Pigeons	A
Northern Oriole	R
Curved-billed Thrasher	C
Carolina Wren	A
Northern Mockingbird	A
American Robin*	A
Brown Creeper	C
House Sparrows*	A
Doves*	A

Favored Utilized

*Prefers to feed on, or close to, the ground (i.e. platform feeders)
** A = Abundant
C = Common
R = Rare

Sources: Mahnken, Jan. Feeding the Birds. Wings Books
               Terres, John K. Songbirds in Your Garden. Algonquin books of Chapel Hill
               USFWS. Backyard Bird Feeding.
               Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Bird Bulletin, Number 1. Cat. No. 211

Rainbow Gardens #3
8516 Bandera Rd @ Guilbeau Rd
San Antonio TX 78250
210-680-2394
Open M-Sat 9AM to 6PM, Sun 10AM to 6PM

Rainbow Gardens #1
2585 Thousand Oaks @ Henderson Pass
San Antonio TX 78232
210-494-6131
Open M-Sat 9AM to 6PM, Sun 10AM to 6PM