How to Attract Cardinals
If you want to hear the sounds of cardinals more often, you’ll need to find ways to attract them to your property. Consider the following tips if you live within the northern cardinal’s range.
Plant Dense Foliage
Cardinals don’t use birdhouses or nesting boxes like most birds. Instead, they prefer nesting in dense plants. Grapevines and evergreen shrubs are just a few plants that cardinals typically flock to. Grapevines double as a food source since cardinals will eat the fruit while their young will eat caterpillars living on the vines.
When setting up plants in your yard, plant them in layers. An assortment of dense plants near each other provides plenty of comfortable space for cardinals to hide and nest in. Soon you’ll be hearing the sounds of cardinals from your plants!
Set up Your Feeder Near Thick Plants
Like most birds, cardinals love eating from bird feeders. Yet, they’re most likely to approach the feeder if it’s near dense foliage. That way, it’s close to where they nest and they have somewhere safe to retreat to if needed.
Cardinals prefer stable bird feeders that are easy to rest on. So, consider a platform bird feeder or a non-hanging feeder. That way, they can easily perch on the feeder while they enjoy the food.
