This is regional birding information for the Rocky Mountains.

Attracting the Ten Common Backyard Birds for May

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
Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus	Sugar Water, Flower Nectar	5	Tree Hanging	Mister
Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens	Suet, Hulled Sunflower	2, 3, 4	Tree Trunk	No
Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia	Black or Hulled Sunflower, Nuts	3	Tabletop Tray	No
Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli	Sunflower, Niger, Safflower, Suet	2, 3, 4	Tabletop Tray, Tree Hanging	Yes
Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides	Insects, Mealworms	3	Tabletop Tray	Yes
American Robin Turdus migratorius	Hulled Sunflower, Mealworms	1, 3	Ground, Tabletop Tray	Yes
Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia	Hulled Sunflower, Seed Mix	1, 3	Ground, Tabletop Tray	Yes
Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii	Sugar Water, Orange Halves	3, 5	Tabletop Tray, Tree Hanging	Yes
House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus	Hulled Sunflower, Safflower, Niger	2, 3	Tabletop Tray, Tree Hanging	Yes
House Sparrow Passer domesticus	Seed Mix, Hulled Sunflower	1, 3	Ground, Tabletop Tray	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.