Experts share their favorite backyard bird feeders

Chad Witko, an outreach biologist in Vernon, Vt., has been a birder since he was 3. His father was a waterfowl hunter and would bring birds home for him to examine. His mother helped him put homemade feeders in the yard.

Nate Swick, a birding podcaster in Greensboro, N.C., also loved birds as a child. His dad was a science teacher. “We were always out in nature and the outdoors,” he says.