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Wild Bird Seed Trading Company

Name: Wild Bird Seed Trading Company
Address: 12611 Montgomery Boulevard NE, Ste A-8, Albuquerque, NM, 87111, US
Telephone: (505) 503-8568

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This is a local business focused on supporting wild bird enthusiasts & supporting the growth of birds

12/22/2025

Meet Rod & Ruby’s offspring!
We have here the Three Stooges- Moe, Curly & Larry.

04/30/2025

The first arrival of a Bullocks Oriole in Edgewood today! 😊

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💝

09/05/2024

Wild Bird Seed Trading Company’s seed blends are “Bird Approved “!!!

04/25/2024

Had an amazing time last weekend with my daughter at the most hidden gem ever! Just outside Amarillo Texas, lies the second largest natural canyon in USA, Palo Duro Canyon.
The scenery and wildlife are incredible! You really get the true feeling of spring visiting now.
Saw some breathtaking views, new birds, Longhorns, and Goats!
Sharing some of my favorite pictures.....

03/03/2024

Howdy Birders! We have some great news to share with you!
Beginning March 4th, Wild Bird Seed Trading Company is expanding our hours of operation on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's to 5:30 PM.
We are also very excited to welcome Kian, who will be here to assist you during these new “open later” hours. She is an experienced birder and knows her way around this fun and rewarding hobby of our feathered friends.
We hope the later hours will work well for you and hope to see you soon!
Jim & Linda

01/08/2024

Happy New Year! Hopefully all the New Mexico folks are staying inside and off the roads today. The East Mountains turned into a white frozen mess overnight not allowing us to get in to open the store. We are sorry about the closing if you tried today, and hope to see you tomorrow.
Sharing some of our visitors today.............

10/25/2023

Our Bird Bio is back and featuring the Woodhouse's Scrub Jay.

A Jay is a Jay you say? No Way!

Until recently, we knew this bird as the Western Scrub jay. Now known as the Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay, they were renamed in 2016 after an American Naturalist; Samuel Washington Woodhouse. It’s the same bird, just a new name.

However what a bird they are! They are in the Corvidae (crow) family and like many corvids; they are off the charts as being part of the most intelligent of all animals. The brain-to-body mass ratio of an adult jay rivals that of a chimpanzee.

Their nature is aggressive and sometimes demanding, especially when it involves eating. In the warmer spring and summer seasons, they forage in pairs and eat insects, fruit and steal from other birds nesting eggs and young. In the fall and winter seasons they are more likely to be at your feeders for nuts, (especially raw peanuts) and seeds. Like many corvids, the Woodhouse’s Scrub Jays store surplus food and rely on their accurate and complex memories to recover their supply where it was hidden. They are also known as hoarding and burying brightly colored objects. Mischievous, and the thieves that they can be, they are smart enough to know where others store their food, and will even be brave or bold enough to take food straight from your hand.

The southern Rocky Mountains Pinon and Juniper forests provide an ideal habitat for this Jay family. They are a year round resident to New Mexico. March through July, they will begin building nests in low trees or bushes. The female constructs a sturdy 13-23 inch in diameter nest from twigs with moss and dry grasses lined with fine roots and hair. The eggs, usually 4-6, are in irregular colors; some pale green with olive colored spots or a pale gray with reddish brown spots. The mother incubates them for about 16 days and the young will fledge about 18 days from hatching. Their life span in the wild is approximately 9 years.

If you ever see a Jay on the back of a Mule Deer, it is because it is just eating ticks and parasites off of it. Other than an occasional tickle, the deer surely doesn’t mind. :)

08/16/2023

Whoops, July came and went without our monthly Bird Bio. A bit late, but hopefully you will find the Evening Grosbeak to be as interesting as they are beautiful.

The Evening Grosbeak is a beautiful Finch family Fringillidae. This name for the finch family consists of 17 varieties of birds that include this beauty. They have magnificent markings of black, gray and yellow, with white and black wings and are about the size of a Northern Cardinal. Their genus name is “Coccothraustes” which means “kernel-cracker”, no doubt referring to their powerful beak. The early settlers added “Evening” to the name Grosbeak by seeing them in the woods only after sundown.
They are a songbird without a song. Instead, its calls are piercing notes and burry chirps. They are year round residents to the northern regions of New Mexico and the Rocky Mountains.

The Grosbeak’s will flock together in the winter months typically in wooded, high elevated forest areas. A flock of Grosbeaks are called a Gross. In winter, flocking provides better luck finding food. When offering them food at your feeders, due to their size, a platform style feeder works the best, filled with black oil sunflower seed. They are more independent in the Spring and Summer months feeding on insects, including a serious forest pest; the Spruce Bud worm. This bird has an exceptionally keen ability to find this insect which has provided early detection of a possible infestation of this caterpillar in our forests today. Summer months also provide much fruit and berries from fruit trees and junipers. Whereas most birds like to eat the fruit of a cherry, the Grosbeak will target the pit and crushes it with its beak.
The flocks will break off into small groups during nesting season. They prefer to build nests high up in Spruce, Pine, Birch, and Maple trees. The nest is built mostly by the female from ground twigs and roots, lined with grasses and pine needles. It is a cup shaped 5x5 with a narrow inner cup inside of 3 inches across and 1 inch deep. The normal egg counts are 2-5, and are blue with brown markings. The incubation is 12-14 days. After 13-14 days following hatching, the young birds will fledge from the nest.

The longest known Evening Grosbeak was banded and found in New Brunswick at the age of 16 years old

Happy Birding!

08/15/2023

August is mating time for Praying Mantis. They WILL attack and KILL Hummingbirds. As vital as they are to nature’s system, if you see one on your feeder, please gently move them to a plant that may need their attention. Your garden will love them as will your hummingbirds. ❤️

06/07/2023

As summer is on the horizon, the Hummingbirds are arriving in New Mexico to begin their families. The Black-chinned shows up first with the Broad-tailed right behind them. They will begin nesting and add one to 2 broods of new arrivals while they are here.

By the end of June, early July, we will be visited by the Rufous……. Mr. Rufous, to all that he honors his presence with, visiting us through late August as he heads back home to Mexico. The Rufous is a member of the Trochilidae family. Their life span is up to 8 years if they survive the juvenile year. They don’t mate for life, nor does the male help with nesting or raising the young.

This small orange (rufous) colored hummingbird weighs in at less than 2 pennies , about 3 inches in size, likes to chatter or buzz as they collect nectar, insects and visit the nectar feeders. The male is marked with an orange head, and a brightly reflective orange-red throat that is called a gorget. The female is mostly green with spots of orange on her gorget.

This small bird is highly driven when they leave their winter home in Mexico as early as January when they begin the longest known migratory journey of ANY Hummingbird in the world, traveling over a total of 4,000 miles round trip! They reach their breeding grounds in SE Alaska and NW Canada by mid-May, traveling up the Pacific coast line, and will begin their return to Mexico by crossing over to the Rockies. We will begin spotting them at our feeders in July where they will visit through mid-August before heading to the Gulf of Mexico. They are accustomed to traveling 500 miles in 18-22 hours, with the ability to travel up to 1300 miles non-stop. When they arrive at the Gulf of Mexico, it is an 18 hour cross on a good day and up to 24 hours if the weather is bad.

As they are known to the observer as the “bad, bully and mean” hummers, ……I can’t help but think that they are deserving of admiration to their breed, and they are simply letting other hummingbirds know that their life is a journey to “move” and can’t be spent overindulging at the feeder.

Let the fun watching the "buzz" begin when they arrive!!!!!

05/14/2023

Adding to our May migrating bird is Ms. Western Tanager. Yep she likes the grape jam too that’s was set out for the Orioles! 😊

Address

12611 Montgomery Boulevard NE, Ste A-8
Albuquerque, NM
87111

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	10am - 3pm
Wednesday	10am - 5:30pm
Thursday	10am - 3pm
Friday	10am - 5:30pm
Saturday	10am - 3pm

Telephone

(505) 503-8568

Website

http://www.wildbirdseedtradingco.com/

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