Bird Watching: How do you attract birds to a new feeder/SunFlower heads, 1 by Depsi

Depsi wrote:
Thank you all for your comments..No, there is no close cover and I didn't think of that. Our house is out on a bench over the canyon so we have trees & bushes on the lower part of our property but not where the pad was bulldozed out for the house. We had many, many birds during the summer in the bird bath so just expected more to the feeder...it sounds like we are being impatient. We will definitely take your suggestion about the different feed, the nut & berry even sounds good to me. We have birch, spruce, roses, peonies, and all kinds of mint and sage planted in that area but of course, it's all just been planted this fall. We have an old plow from the land around us in front of everything as yard art and the fella's fly in and sit on it + go all over the ground amongst the mint eating. We were just thinking that maybe we need to spread some on the rocks around the feeder. We are very new to this and are looking forward to really enjoying the birds as we gain more knowledge and we very much appreciate your help...Deb