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There is an incredible amount of information on the web about feeding wild birds. One observation we made is that a lot of the advice is very basic providing little meaningful and useful information, especially for someone who takes this hobby seriously. If you want to know more specifics like what book to read. What seed to buy, which binoculars are the right kind. Do the products come from sustainable sources? Are new products re-cycled? This is the place to come for advice and experience.

The staff have over 80 years experience feeding backyard birds and, they have over 36 years of recent experience owning and operating a successful retail store in Southern Maryland. That store specialized in providing people with the right kind of information as well as the product to back it up. Running a Mom & Pop retail store for almost 18 years these days is no small accomplishment.

Lee is honing his photography skills but since Dee is confined to a wheelchair he's committed as her caregiver to transporting her to and from the store when she wants to see old friends. The couple has been married for 48 years and the outlook for extending that union looks very promising.

The store provides a simple and uncomplicated approach to serving customers. Let's  say you want to feed sparrows or doves. You can locate those birds in your bird book index. You'll learn that sparrows and doves are called "Ground Feeders" and the book says those birds eat a seed called millet.

Fair enough, so you go to a store and buy a bag of millet. You bring it home, fill your feeder and they don't eat it! Why not? Is it White Proso Millet? German Millet? Red millet? The book didn't say anything about the color or ethnicity did it? At this point you're confused and start to doubt the book and yourself. "Do I want sparrows anyway?" "Don't they eat doves or snakes?" or  "Maybe I need a different or better seed feeder and a better book?"

Get the idea? This is where our staff can help you because they've done it for a very long time. No theory is involved at this stage, just actual application and personal experience testing various seed blends and feeders. There is a difference! You'll see!

Although Lee no longer owns the store, he's a guy with a passion for the birding hobby. He used to do raptor rescue years ago but that's in the past now. He does have some wonderful memories and photos of some complicated rescues. An injured hawk or heron or eagle can be incredibly fast on the ground even with a broken wing and Lee is simply getting too old for that sort of thing now. He says, "I'm gray haired, and getting to old to run with the birds, but I love to photograph birds and wildlife. Eagles and Bluebirds are my favorites". All the photos on this site are his.