My wife knows how much I enjoy watching the birds on our property, so it was an easy choice to give me an intelligent Bird feeder for my birthday. If you haven’t seen them before, they are pretty impressive since they take a short video of every bird that lands on the feeder and keep a record of those birds. It can also email an alert of those birds landing. (I did turn that feature off after this bird feeder became the most popular one on our property)  The intelligent bird feeder connects to an app called Bird Lover on your phone and will identify any bird it sees. It even has a built-in microphone and speaker, which allows you to hear the birds or yell at a squirrel trying to steal their food. This is the perfect companion to the Merlin app I wrote about almost a year ago, which identifies birds by their songs.

Many companies make these bird feeders, and I can’t recommend one over another, but we have had a lot of fun with the one in our yard.