For the best gift selection and less stressful holiday shopping, start early this year!!! We’re in the Holiday Spirit, stocked up and ready with nature-themed gifts for everyone on your list —no matter the age or budget.
Need inspiration? See our Holiday Shopping 2021 menu below:
Shopping local, small businesses keeps your money in your community.
For over 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.
See our nature-themed Wall, Mini, Page-a-Day or Engagement Calendars for 2022. Great gifts for everyone!
Please do not feed bread, crackers and other human snack food to wild birds! Bread has ZERO nutrition for them, but fills their small stomachs— robbing them of opportunities to take in real nourishment. In winter, this can kill them!
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 over 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:
Thank you for voting us ‘Best Of’
MoCo’s Best Gift Shop
Montgomery County, Maryland!!!
Beginning Friday, November 26th, The Backyard Naturalist store has new, extended holiday shopping hours.
Tuesday: 10 - 6pm
Wednesday: 10 - 6pm
Thursday: 10 - 6pm
Friday: 10 - 6pm
Saturday: 10 - 6pm
Sunday: 12 - 5pm
Monday: Closed
Now that the store is open for indoor shopping again, we've also simplified our parking lot pickups process.
No more online form or email orders are necessary!
For now, masks are required (and much appreciated) inside our store.
We're hiring! Help us connect with someone awesome!
Find out more here.
The Backyard Naturalist
17910 Georgia Avenue
Olney MD 20832
301-924-0024
Email us at info@thebyn.com
but phone calls still work best!
Or subscribe to our email updates:
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.
The Greater Washington DC Metro Area and Suburbs
Maryland, Virginia
and the District of Columbia
Suburban Maryland: Olney, Sandy Spring, Ashton,Rockville, Silver Spring, Bethesda, Gaithersburg, Derwood, Germantown, Damascus, Brookeville, Wheaton, Glenmont, Kensington, Aspen Hill, Takoma Park
Washington DC
Northern Virgina (NOVA)
The Backyard Naturalist has gifts for all ages and within any budget.
The Backyard Naturalist © 2021. All Rights Reserved. | 17910 Georgia Avenue, Olney, Maryland 20832 | Phone: (301) 924-0024 |
Stocking Best Quality Wild Bird Seed & Suet, Wild Bird Feeders, Squirrel-Proof Feeders & Bird Baths & Fountains, Bird & Bat Houses, Nesting Boxes and Birding Resources for Birders and Nature Lovers in the Greater Washington, DC area. Three time winner 'Best Of Montgomery County' Best Gift Shop, specializing in nature-themed gifts for all ages, within every budget. Currently, please order by email form or phone, to schedule safe, no-contact parking lot pickups. Safe shopping (limited hours) in The Backyard Naturalist Annex next door.
Benefits for Wild Birds + Unlimited Joy for Humans