This is regional birding information for the Northeast.

Attracting the Ten Common Backyard Birds for June

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
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris	Sugar Water, Flower Nectar	5	Tree Hanging	Mister
Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapilla	Sunflower, Niger, Safflower, Suet	2, 3, 4	Tabletop Tray, Tree Hanging	Yes
Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor (Parus bicolor)	Black Oil Sunflower	2, 3, 4	Tabletop Tray, Tree Hanging	Yes
House Wren Troglodytes aedon	Insects	none	Shrubbery	No
American Robin Turdus migratorius	Hulled Sunflower, Mealworms	1, 3	Ground, Tabletop Tray	Yes
Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina	Hulled Sunflower, Niger	2, 3	Tabletop Tray	Yes
Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus	Sunflower Seed, Hulled or Black Oil	3	Tabletop Tray	Yes
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis	Black Oil Sunflower, Safflower	3	Tabletop Tray	Yes
American Goldfinch Carduelis tristis	Hulled Sunflower, Niger	2, 3	Tabletop Tray, Tree Hanging	Yes
House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus	Hulled Sunflower, Safflower, Niger	2, 3	Tabletop Tray, 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.