Bird watching is relaxing. When done from the comfort of your home doubly so. It can really help with any regimen of senior care. North Hollywood, CA residents can enjoy some great bird watching with a simple bird feeder.
Bird feeders come in many shapes and sizes. Those in residential assisted living in North Hollywood, CA can choose from many types, but your home situation might dictate what your bird feeder can look like. Homes with a yard can have one on a pole some distance from the yard. This allows you to see the birds that prefer to feed on the ground and won’t usually go up to a feeder.
Seniors in elderly care in North Hollywood, CA homes that have no back yard will have to rely on a feeder suspended from a bracket on the side of the house or attached right to the window using a strong suction cup.
But whichever type of bird feeder your home care assistance agency helps you find and set up, be sure to fill it with black oil sunflower seeds. This attracts more birds than any other bird seed and isn’t filled with useless filler that the birds just kick out of the way.
Then once it’s all set up, just wait! You and your live-in caregiver or senior day care helper will be certain to enjoy the show.
Some of the most common birds to visit bird feeders in southern California are:
The house finch, a small, energetic bird with a lovely song. The male has striking bright reddish feathers around his head, neck and chest, but they’re mixed with more drab feathers as the go back toward the tail.
The mourning dove is a lovely bird with different shades of gray, brownish, and black in its feathers. This peaceful and calm bird is notable for its soft coo-coo coo-cooooo song. The mourning dove, however, almost never feeds at a feeder, but prefers to feed on the ground, picking up the seed dropped by the birds at the feeder.
Another bird you’ll likely see is the California scrub jay. This mid-sized bird has vibrant blue feathers on its back and soft gray feathers on its underside. It is an aggressive bird with other birds, but the best thing about it is its dance during mating season. When a male is courting a female, it performs an elaborate and rather entertaining dance maneuver.
The last bird we’ll mention is the oak titmouse. The oak titmouse is a smaller gray bird with a characteristic tuft on its head. This bird will flit to your feeder, get a seed, and flit to a tree to crack it open and eat.
So, with the assistance of the trained, licensed, bonded, compassionate CAREGivers of Home Instead you’ll be able to choose the bird feeder that is right for your situation and begin to enjoy bird watching from the comfort of your own home!
Call Home Instead today at (818) 805-2208 for a virtual or in-home assessment. We have the experience and the passion needed to make your loved one’s life the best it can be.
