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About Bird Oasis, Your Backyard Birding Store
.  We help people create a backyard oasis for wild birds and test many of the products that we sell on our 17 acre bird oasis. Together, Carol and I have over 40 years of retail management and customer service experience Our feeders are often visited by chickadees, gold finches, crossbills, purple finches, redpolls, grosbeaks, nuthatches, towhees, house wrens, juncos, bluebirds, quail, magpies, blackbirds, flickers, hairy and downy woodpeckers, and of course hummingbirds, lots of hummingbirds. We live in eastern Washington on several acres, some of which are a portion of a lake. Our lake is home or a rest stop for many wild water fowl. We have Canada geese, swans, mallard ducks, wood ducks, redhead ducks, common mergansers, hooded mergansers, common goldeneyes, American wigeons, ruddy ducks, blue herons, and even a couple of bald eagles. Others who have stopped by to visit include moose, white tail deer, mule deer, raccoons, porcupines, coyotes, wild turkeys, skunks, and... so far... only one squirrel!
To the left you can see a picture of the wood duck nest in a nest box I built after one of the female wood ducks sat on one of our roosting boxes and kept looking in our window. Whenever we would look her way she would peck at the side of the box as if to say, please put a hole right here. Well I thought ok, maybe I should make a nest box, but soon got busy with other things and forgot. Well a few days later the same female wood duck, I'm assuming she's the same one, walked 150 feet uphill from the lake to our side yard, walked through our flower garden and started walking up the stairs to our front door. I kid you not.  When Carol opened the door the wood duck flew away, but Carol says that she was trying to tell us that she needed a nesting box so I was sent to the barn to build one.
Can you believe she flew in it right after I put it up. Those eggs must have been screaming to get out. A few days later, another female wood duck was sitting on the same roosting box with her husband pecking at the side again. Now I thought maybe it was the same one until I saw Miss Pushy Duck flying up to the box I already built. So I had to go back to the barn and build another box. Now we're experiencing the joy of what a contractor must feel when he sees children playing in the yard of one of the homes he built.  Here are photos of the bluebird nest out by our greenhouse. I was amazed at how neat mama bluebird kept those eggs. They hatched soon after the photo on the left. You can see the one on the right is after they hatched, boy were they hungry. They've all flown the coop, now hungrily chasing their parents around.
We have a few domestic animals as well. Four rescued cats: Max, Minnie, Jasper, and Jewel. The first two are primarily indoor cats. The last two are our barn cats. Jasper and Jewel share the barn with our seven rescued llamas: Horizon, Cruiser, Kiwi, Joker, Blizzard, Frodo and Sam. The latest addition to our family is a 6 year old Airedale named Maximus who is recovering from hip surgery after his owner abandoned him at a local animal hospital. 
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Bird Oasis
18118 S. Cherokee Ct.
Cheney WA 99004
509-714-7260 
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