This is regional birding information for the Great Plains.

Attracting the Ten Common Backyard Birds for November

Here's a head start for your plan to invite more birds to your home. Our list includes the kinds of food and feeders that many birds in your area will find irresistable. Be sure to visit us again for next month's list.

Name	Food	Feeder Type (key)	Feeder Niche	Uses Bath
Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapilla	Sunflower, Niger, Safflower, Suet	2, 3, 4	Tabletop Tray, Tree Hanging	Yes
Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens	Suet, Hulled Sunflower	2, 3, 4	Tree Trunk	No
Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis	Seed Mix, Hulled Sunflower	1, 3	Ground, Tabletop Tray	No
White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis	Sunflower, Suet	2, 3, 4	Tabletop Tray, Tree Trunk	No
Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata	Black Oil, Hulled Sunflower, Nuts	3	Tabletop Tray	Yes
Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus	Suet, Hulled Sunflower	2, 3, 4	Tree Trunk	No
House Sparrow Passer domesticus	Seed Mix, Hulled Sunflower	1, 3	Ground, Tabletop Tray	Yes
House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus	Hulled Sunflower, Safflower, Niger	2	Tree Hanging	Yes
Common Redpoll Carduelis flammea	Niger, Hulled Sunflower	2	Tree Hanging	Yes
American Goldfinch Carduelis tristis	Hulled Sunflower, Niger	2	Tree Hanging	Yes

Key to feeder types:

1=ground tray; 2=hanging tube; 3=tray, or hopper with rim, on post; 4=caged suet holder; 5=sugar water. Find out more about the different types of feeders.