Great Ground Bird food Eaters Like our Friend the Junco
Every back yard birder knows about the hanging bird feeders, and the dish bowl bird feeders, but few birders know that some birds, like the Junco, prefer ground bird food feeders. These birds often wait for the droppings from hanging bird feeders, and are hungry when the feeders do not allow any food to fall.
Ground Bird Food Feeders for The Junco
Ground Bird Food Eaters Like a Junco
There are feeders that can be placed on or near the ground, but the Junco and other small sized sparrow birds, like to scratch. They are not picky eaters, and will eat the less loved white millet unlike a healthy squirrel who generally will pass on the millet, and go for black sunflower seed over millet. The ability for the Junco to search and scratch on the ground, is a great thing for your bird watching scenery, as they are unusually active birds on the vulnerable ground. Ground bird food for Juncos can be white millet, safflower, white proso millet, or even cracked corn that is mold free. Corn has a nasty habit of inducing mold on its open kernel, so if you intend to add some starch by adding corn, you may want whole kernels, and crack it yourself before you scatter.
Ground Bird Food Attracts Not Only Juncos but Other Birds
Other birds that may be attracted to your ground bird food will include Junco, but also, Sparrows, Doves, Quails, Towhees, and some Bobwhite Birds. You may want to include a healthy but skim scattering of food on the ground each time your fill your hanging feeders, to give your Juncos, and Doves the right nutrition for them. They are great scatter feeders, and need to eat off the ground.
Wild Turkeys too, like to scatter feed, and will scratch areas clean when you have wood chips underneath hanging feeders. Over the course of a few years, I have noticed that the soil underneath my feeders is rich and can be good to add to compost, to bring up the compost value for my garden. The natural visits from our feathered friends, are a good nutrient addition to any yard.
Ground Bird Food can Create some Challenges
Even if you do not intend to feed on the ground, your ground bird food options will naturally occur from a hanging feeder. The most careful hanging bird feeder still will have bird visitors, who like to dump food on the ground for others. I watched a sparrow come to my feeder one day, and empty the feeder out for the flock below.
The next time I filled, I added a small but open chicken wire sleeve into the hole, and the dumper came back, but then dropped to the ground, and discovered the scatter I had left. This way, the food was not as plentiful, as to encourage rodent and other wildlife visitors, but enough to provide the ground bird food that the sparrows desired.
There is always one sparrow in a group who is the dumper, and you can easily deter this one ground bird food eater with a small chicken wire sleeve inserted into the feeder.
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David Sunflower Seed, Jalapeno Hot Salsa Flavor, 5.25-Ounce Bag (Pack of 12) Reviews
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Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall
A few nice sunflower seeds images I found:
Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall
Image by failing_angel
Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
[From the Tate Website]
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Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall
Some cool sunflower seeds images:
Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall
Image by failing_angel
Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
[From the Tate Website]
Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall
Image by failing_angel
Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
[From the Tate Website]
Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall
Image by failing_angel
Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
[From the Tate Website]
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BIGS Bacon Salt Sizzlin’ Bacon Sunflower Seeds, 5.35-Ounce Bag(Pack of 12) Reviews
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Sunflower Seeds – Healthy Food Ingredients
Sunflower seeds can be either eaten fresh or used as ingredients in baking bread and other dishes. They are great sources of healthy fatty acids and are popular in desserts and candy. Several sunflower aficionados are adding more flavor to the seeds by creating their own brine. The Native Americans were the first humans who discovered that sunflower seeds are quite tasty to eat. They ground it to become a healthy flour to be used in preparing a variety of dishes or bake sweets and cakes.
You can make your own sunflower seed brine by initially washing the seeds then putting them in a large bowl with cold water. Stir well until dirt and sediments settle down the bowl and the particles are floating up.
You don’t need to create brine if you want to eat sunflower seeds without shells. Brine is only suitable of adding flavor to sunflower seeds with shells. Spices and salt can be added to sunflower seeds with no shells, and you can put some vegetable oil (much better if sunflower oil is used) to make the spices stick with the kernels.
Then, roasting sunflower seeds comes next. This is just optional but if you want your seeds to last longer, this is a good idea. You can leave it out when you plan to eat the seeds right away. To roast sunflower seeds, place them in a single layer on a plate. Then, turn the oven to 275 degrees C and put the plate in it. The seeds will be cooked for about 10 minutes. Don’t leave them in the oven for long since they burn easily.
The sunflower seeds can be now dipped in brine after being cooled down. There are brine recipes that are suitable for both roasted and non-roasted sunflower seeds. You can find a lot of recipes online or you can experiment on your own by adding the spices that you like to add.
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David Sunflower Seed, Nacho Cheese Flavor, 5.25-Ounce Bags (Pack of 12)
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Cool Sunflower Seeds images
Some cool sunflower seeds images:
Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall
Image by failing_angel
Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
[From the Tate Website]
Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall
Image by failing_angel
Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
[From the Tate Website]
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Cool Sunflower Seeds images
A few nice sunflower seeds images I found:
Sunflower Seeds, Tate Modern, London
Image by sierragoddess
October 2010, Sunflower Seeds was installed at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, the work consists of one hundred million porcelain "seeds," each individually hand-painted in the town of Jingdezhen by 1,600 Chinese artisans, and scattered over a large area of the exhibition hall.
Sunflower Seeds, Tate Modern, London
Image by sierragoddess
Millions of individually hand-painted porcelain Sunflower Seeds creation by Ai Weiwei
Sunflower Seed
Image by Phil Hawksworth
A single, hand made, hand painted sunflower seed. One of 100 million like it. Part of a mind boggling installation at London’s Tate Modern – Ai WeiWei’s Sunflower seeds.
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Nice Sunflower Seeds photos
Check out these sunflower seeds images:
raw cinnamon sunflower seed milk
Image by sweetbeetandgreenbean
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Sunflower Seed Kaleidoscope
Image by Tobyotter
I started with a photo of sunflower seeds from my bird feeder and manipulated it in Paint Shop Pro ( to make this – I will post a copy of the starting image in the comments.
Sunflower seeds
Image by Phil Hawksworth
Just a few of the 100 million hand made seeds at a mind boggling installation at London’s Tate Modern – Ai WeiWei’s Sunflower seeds.
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