Safe, No-Contact Pickups Now Available

The Backyard Naturalist
17910 Georgia Avenue
Olney MD 20832
301-924-0024

We are offering safe, no-contact parking lot pickups while our store is closed to the public.

Hours

Our business hours for our no-contact parking lot pickups are currently:


We are closed on Saturday, July 4th.

Monday  1- 5pm
Wednesday  1- 5pm
Friday  1- 5pm
Saturday  1- 5pm

How to Order

Email us with your order.

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.

Find email order instructions here.

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Wild Birds Must Maximize Nutrition at Each Feeding Opportunity

The Backyard Naturalist stocks only premium wild bird food, like Black Oil Sunflower seeds. Photo by Bauschard, flickrCC

Quality Bird Seed and Clean Feeders Matter

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”…

From The Backyard Blog

  • Just add water! A bird bath is an opportunity to attract non-seed eaters to your backyard.Bird Baths! Because all birds need water, all the time.
    Don’t Miss Out on Some Great Backyard Birding All birds need water! A bird bath is an opportunity to attract even the non-seed eaters to your yard. There are birds you’ll never tempt with the food in your feeders. But, if you’d like to also see more insect and fruit eaters in your …

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:

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Safe, No-Contact Pickups Now Available

The Backyard Naturalist
17910 Georgia Avenue
Olney MD 20832
301-924-0024

We are offering safe, no-contact parking lot pickups while our store is closed to the public.

Hours

Our business hours for our no-contact parking lot pickups are currently:


We are closed on Saturday, July 4th.

Monday  1- 5pm
Wednesday  1- 5pm
Friday  1- 5pm
Saturday  1- 5pm

How to Order

Email us with your order.

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.

Find email order instructions here.

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The Backyard Naturalist
17910 Georgia Avenue
Olney MD 20832

301-924-0024

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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.