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Empty calories are lost nourishment! Wild birds must be efficient eaters to survive. They seek the best nutritional content available and eat their fill quickly. Feeding birds bread (Please never feed bread!) or seed blends full of ‘filler seed’ is essentially robbing them of opportunities for full nourishment. In winter, a stomach filled with empty calories will not give a wild bird enough energy to stay warm. Read More about “Quality Bird Seed and Clean Feeders Matter”…
The Backyard Naturalist has simple tips on how to support wild birds and get the most out of backyard birding during the heat of summer.…
Thank You for Celebrating This Special Day with Us!
It was a perfect day, for many, many reasons.
Our heartfelt appreciation to each of you who came to visit the store or sent us your best wishes for our 30th anniversary. We are grateful to have each one of you in our lives. Special gratitude for Adventures with Raptors. Being so close to these amazing animals — while being surrounded by so many people who love and honor them — was a unique, humbling and emotional experience that we will always remember.
Thank you for sharing the Love.
Debi and Mike & The Backyard Naturalist Staff
Thank you to our dear friend Marjorie Hollis for capturing this moment.
About The Backyard Naturalist
The Backyard Naturalist is the area's largest and oldest independent retailer of products for wild birds and gifts for nature lovers of all ages! Proudly serving Maryland and the Washington, DC metro area for thirty years.
We are Maryland's first and only store to be awarded Droll Yankees' Five Feather Platinum Premier dealer status.
We take care of our feathered friends’ needs year-round:
We will respond to your email BY PHONE to confirm your order, get payment info, and give you pickup directions the next business day we are open, starting at 11:30am. PLEASE BE SURE YOU HAVE INCLUDED YOUR PHONE
This is not an e-commerce website. When ordering, you'll talk to a real human who will answer every question you have! Please bear with us.
Our emails are rare birds and fly in as seasonal reminders carrying noteworthy information. We promise their chicks will never hatch in your InBox.
Our mailing list NEVER migrates, so your info stays private.
Our Mission
For 30 years, The Backyard Naturalist has had this mission:
To inspire our community to appreciate and nurture the nature found in all our backyards by providing a sanctuary of food, water and shelter for wild birds.
Each of our backyard habitats contributes to the health and well-being of not only the individual visitors to our feeders and baths, but is also one more piece of habitat restored and connected to Migratory Flyways. As green space increasingly disappears due to development, our backyard micro habitats link together, backyard by backyard, across our county – our state – our country.
