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What's on the Page
- Information on our home-grown birdseed
- Price list for Bow View wildlife feed products
- Bird feeding and watching tips
- Links to bird related websites and clubs
- Recommended books on birds
BOW VIEW BLACK OIL SUNFLOWERS AND WILDLIFE FEED
Our home-grown black oil sunflowers are raised with care, using integrated
pest management practices and a bare minimum of chemical pest controls, on
our farm near West Bow Creek south of Crofton, Nebraska.
As many of you know, black oil sunflowers are one of the most popular
feeding staples year around in the region because they attract a wide
variety of birds including chickadees, nuthatches, finches, cardinals and
bluejays to name a few. Sparrows don't prefer sunflower seed.
Our seed is cleaned by a local processor and packaged in 50 lbs., 25 lbs.,
4 lbs., and 2 lbs. bags. We also have bulk quantities available. We'll
deliver to your doorstep in Knox, Cedar and Yankton counties. Our birdseed
can also be picked up from the farm, ordered online from our general store
page or purchased through our retail partners in Knox and Cedar counties. We
can ship the seed anywhere in the U.S. with the buyer paying the shipping
fees.
We also sell ear corn for squirrel and wildlife feed packaged in bags of
six ears. You can also purchase shell corn in the bag or bulk.
We market a number of other products related to birding including No-No
Birdfeeders developed by Ray Lush of Bloomfield, Nebraska. We also sell
rough-hewn and handmade Nebraska red cedar birdhouses, birdfeeders, squirrel
feeders and butterfly houses made by local farmer, Charles Tramp. Check out
our General Store page for a complete listing of our bird feeding equipment
and seed.
We annually sponsor bird feeding workshops in the region during the winter
months as well as birding field trips in the summer. We have tentatively
scheduled our annual Bow View Farm Field and Birdseed booking day for
Saturday, July 27, 2002.
2002 PRICE LIST
BLACK OIL SUNFLOWERS - OUR SPECIALITY
Delivered free in Knox, Cedar and Yankton counties
Shipped anywhere in the U.S.
- 2 lbs. - $1.54 (all + Neb. sales tax, and shipping if applicable)
- 4 lbs. - $2.65
- 25 lbs. - $7.47
- 50 lbs. - $11.87
- BULK - 30 cents/lb.
EAR CORN - 20 cents per ear
SHELL CORN - 30 cents per pound
GO TO OUR GENERAL STORE PAGE TO PLACE YOUR ORDER --> HERE
BIRD FEEDING TIPS FROM THE EXPERTS - OUR CUSTOMERS
- Our seed will grow in the Spring where it spilled beneath your feeder.
Try placing a large pan underneath your hanging feeders on the ground or on
a pedestal to catch some of the spilled seed. Birds will feed out of the
tray and waste less seed because of the catch pan.
- Water is the key. Provide a birdbath, water pan or in the winter a heated
dog water bowl for the birds. You'll see marked improvement on visitation.
Or put your bird feeding station by your yard pond.
- If squirrels raid your bird feeders, put a squirrel feeder in a separate
part of the yard on the other side of the house if possible.
- Keep your bird ID book near the window where you watch your feeders or
have your coffee. You might try keeping a journal or scrap paper nearby to
keep track of your bird visitors.
- Watch your birdseed purchases for grain sorghum or milo. Most backyard
birds don't like the stuff, but it's used consistently in the industry as a
filler in cheaper birdseed mixes. If your mix has lots of milo, you're
paying for something that will be wasted. Milo mixes are fine for feeding
game birds in the fields like pheasants and quail.
- Black oil sunflowers will get rancid it they are left in the rain or in a
really wet, warm area. Just place your seed up off the floor of your garage
or storage shed, especially in the spring and summer and allow a little air
circulation through the area once in awhile and your seed should store just
fine.
- If you want to attract cardinals, location is the key. If you are in
northern Nebraska like we are, it can be tricky but certainly not
impossible. Just be patient. Cardinals love black oil sunflowers, but they
also like bird mixes with the white safflower seed.
- If you don't want sparrows at your feeder, stay away from the millet and
corn mixtures.
- We don't raise nyger seed. It is mostly produced in other countries and
there is little if any under cultivation in the U.S. But it's the preferred
seed for finches.
- Clean your feeders when you fill them, so the seed doesn’t get moldy
- Once you start feeding birds, keep the feeders full year around because
they will put you on their feeding route and will be disappointed if your
feeder is empty when they are counting on it.
- Keep feeding year around because in the spring, migratory song birds
need the energy of your feeder during their long trips. Summer birds also
need energy and will continue to visit if you keep the feeder full. Of
course, winter months are very tough on birds, so winter feeding is very
popular with most feeders.
If you have a question you'd like us to ask our experts and friends, just
email us here and we'll get back to you.
FAVORITE BIRDING WEBSITE LINKS
National Bird-Feeding Society - www.birdfeeding.org
Songbird Foundation - www.songbird.org
American Bird Conservancy - www.abcbirds.org
Bird Watcher's Digest - www.birdwatchersdigest.com
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology - www.birds.cornell.edu
National Audubon Society - www.audubon.org
North American Bluebird Society - www.nabluebirdsociety.org
Bluebirds Across Nebraska - www.bbne.org/index.htm
Wild Birds.com - www.wildbirds.com
FROM OUR BOOKSTORE - AMAZON.COM
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