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Published: July 13, 2009
Attract feathered friends by using proper incentives
DEAN FOSDICK
Backyard bird watching is a fairly simple exercise. Provide enough food, water and cover, and birds will come flocking. Playing favorites, though, calls for using the right kinds of incentives.

Hummingbirds, for example, will linger longer if you offer nesting material to help cushion their pea-size eggs.

"Goldfinches and titmice go for it, too. Lots of birds,” said Mel Toellner , whose company, Songbi...

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