Gifts Under $30
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Gift giving this holiday season is easier than ever with our WBU holiday gift selection. We are excited to offer a wide variety of gifts to meet any budget. Any of the below items can be given as gifts and make great stocking stuffers. Best of all WBU Barrie will wrap your gifts for you at no cost!
WBU Gift Cards: WBU Gift Cards are the perfect gift for every nature lover. Every nature lover is different, so finding the ideal gift for him or her can be difficult. That's why our Gift Cards are the perfect gift for every occasion. They allow your friend or loved one to choose what part of nature he or she wants to enjoy. The best part: our Gift Cards are redeemable at every Wild Birds Unlimited location.
Club Membership: Give the gift that keeps on giving year round! With our Club members save 15% year round on their bird food, earn points for $10 coupons, receive a FREE gift (5 lbs. of our best selling No-Mess Seed Blend) and have access to special Club only monthly promotions and special events. Sign a friend or family member up today and give them the gift of savings for a full year!
Beeswax Wraps: Beeswax wraps replace plastic wrap and it makes much more sense. Living food needs to breathe, otherwise it would come with an airtight wrap the rind, peel or skin. Beeswax wraps let your food breathe and it smells amazing! Perfect for bread, herbs, avocado, onions, cheese and anything else you can think of. Each sheet is cleaned using warm water and dish soap and can be reused for up to a year. When your finished simply compost wraps. How awesome is that? WBU Barrie carries beeswax wraps in a variety of sizes to suit all of the delicious foods in your kitchen!
Adjustable Hanger: No where convenient to hang your feeder? Problem solved! This versatile hanging system makes reaching and filling your feeders a breeze, no matter where you decide to hang them. The ratchet mechanism assists in easily raising or lowering bird feeders, hanging baskets, or other garden items. Holds up to 35 lbs and extends from: 6" - 48" in length.
WBU APS Seed Cylinder Finial: Add an extra feeder to your APS system with the WBU APS Seed Cylinder Finial. Simply attach to the top of the pole in place of the decorative finial. Works with any size seed/suet cylinder or seed character. Allows you to add another feeder to your Advanced Pole System® (APS) without taking up another hanger. Compatible with both the WBU Multi-Feeder Seed Catcher Tray, WBU Flying Start Roof and WBU Seed Cylinder Cage for even more versatility.
Beeswax Hand Dipped Taper Candle Pairs: These elegant tapered candles are hand dipped the 'old way' out of pure Canadian Beeswax. The act of creating a candle with repetitive dips into a gorgeous smelling vat of pure beeswax, produces a long even burning candle. Pure cotton wick. Twelve hours of burn time per 12" candle. Handcrafted in Canada. 
Dimensions: 12" in Height x 7/8" Base
Best Places to Bird in Ontario: Written by Kenneth Burrell and Michael Burrell, Best Places to Bird in Ontario covers the top 30 birding destinations in Ontario, with up-to-date information on hard to find species, directions, birding tips, and much more! In this user-friendly guidebook, local experts Mike and Ken Burrell tour their favourite birding sites, from Point Pelee to Moosonee, Rainy River to Cornwall. Along the way they share insider tips for spotting more than 300 species, advise for exactly when and where to go for the best results, and helpful hints for finding rarely seen birds. Clear maps, beautiful colour photos, and a wealth of useful information make Best Places to Bird in Ontario an invaluable resource that will delight first-time and experienced birders alike. Paperback. 266 pages.
Bone China Mugs: For those of you who collect our mugs or want to start your own collection, this new line is for you! These mugs are made of Bone China, are dishwasher and microwave safe and come in a decorative gift box. We carry 13 beautiful designs showcasing various birds and other wildlife, including Owls, Woodpeckers, Doves, Orioles, Blue Jays, Goldfinches, Cardinals, Rabbits, Chipmunks, Foxes, Deer, and many more! Watch your back yard friends, and enjoy your favorite beverage in your favourite mug!
Cedar Bark Butter® Log: Our Cedar Bark Butter Logs are made of Solid Northern White Cedar and are a unique and attractive way to feed Birdacious® Bark Butter®. These are recycled logs - made from cut-offs from a furniture factory! Four holes in this log fit our Birdacious® Bark Butter® Plugs. One of the benefits of this feeder is its large size accommodates the large woodpeckers including Pileated Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Hairy Woodpeckers. Please note: The cedar logs may have cracks when you get them. If they don’t, you can expect them to crack as they dry. The cracking stops at the core and will not split the log in half. This adds a rustic appearance to the logs. Make the cracks functional! Fill them with Bark Butter®, leftover suet, or nuts.
Dimensions: 16” Tall x 3.5” Diameter
Christmas Seed Blend™: Our exclusive Christmas Seed Blend™ is a high-fat, quick-energy food source that combines sunflower, suet nuggets, almonds, peanuts and cranberries to meet your birds' hearty appetites. After all, it's nearing that time when birds have the most difficulty finding food. Large nut pieces may clog your tube feeders, so try serving this blend in your hopper or tray feeders. This holiday season, give your birds a Christmas meal they won't soon forget. Available for a limited time in the months leading up to Christmas.
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CJ Wildlife Mugs: For those of you who collect our High Quality Ceramic mugs or want to start your own collection, there are many in stock here for you! There are so many beautiful birds and each of the most common backyard birds comes in a stunning mug to add to or start your collection. These mugs are made of 100% ceramic, are dishwasher and microwave safe. We carry 13 beautiful designs include American Goldfinch, Black-capped Chickadee, Blue Jay, House Finch, American Robin, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Anna’s Hummingbird, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Bluebird, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and White-breasted Nuthatch. Watch your back yard friends, and enjoy your favorite beverage in your favorite bird mug!
Clear View Mini: The Clear View Mini makes bird watching up close and personal! This cute little open tray feeder holds 1 cup of seed. This feeder is ideal for offering WBU Seed Blends, seeds, shelled peanuts, mealworms, Birdacious® Bark Butter® Bits and other treats. The covered roof provides all-weather feeding. The Clear View Mini is made of heavy, clear acrylic and one suction cup attaches it securely to the window.
Cranberry Fare Seed Wreath: Our Cranberry Fare Seed Wreaths are a convenient way to attract more birds to your backyard. These feeders are packed with pecans, peanuts, black oil and sunflower chips, safflower and cranberries to attract a large variety of birds. They love the taste; you'll love the simplicity.
Ingredients: Pecans, sunflower chips, peanuts, safflower, black oil sunflower and cranberries
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Feather Friendly® Window Markers: Bird collisions with residential glass surfaces account for a significant number of bird deaths annually - especially during migration seasons. To allow for birds to 'see the glass' and not collide, subtle visible markers must be applied to exterior glass surfaces in problem areas. This new, highly effective, ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Kit is now available from Feather Friendly® Technologies. It allows you to apply the same solution at home that has proven to be successful in thousands of square feet of commercial building installations. Each 100’ roll protects a glass surface of 2.5’ x 6.5’ (30” x 80”) or 16’ square feet.
Available in packages of 1 or 3 rolls, each kit of Feather Friendly comes with: 100’ roll (1 or 3) of Feather Friendly Residential Marker-Pattern Tape; Measuring Tapes (2); Installation Instructions.
Flying Start Combo Feeder: Our WBU Flying Start Combo Feeder is a great introductory feeder for Stackables™ or Cylinders. These elegant little feeders come black and red and are able to accommodate three Stackables™ or one 2 lbs. Cylinder as well as any of our specialty cylinders. WBU Flying Start Combo Feeders can be hung almost anywhere including pole systems, hooks and decks and the specially designed large hook can accommodate tree branches. Available in red or black. Squirrels an issue? The Flying Start Combo is now available in a Hot Pepper version as well!
Fundamentals Seed Tube Feeder: Our Fundamentals Seed Tube Feeder is a wonderful way to introduce the hobby of bird feeding to your backyard (or to someone else’s!). The Fundamentals Seed Tube Feeder is easy to fill, hang and clean. Simply fill this feeder with your birds’ favourite WBU Seed Blend and you’ll attract: Chickadees, Finches, Nuthatches, Pine Siskins, Woodpeckers, Wrens and more. This feeder has 6 perches and a capacity for approximately 1 lbs. (0.45 kg) or 4.5 cups the birds favourite WBU Seed Blend.
WBU Fundamentals Squirrel Table and Chair: Maybe you're Pro-squirrel and have some furry friends that you want to pamper. Maybe you're No-squirrel and need a way to distract your backyard bandits from your bird feeders. Whatever your reason is, our WBU Fundamentals Squirrel Table and Chair can accommodate one corn on the cob or one WBU Nut Munch and is the perfect way to feed your squirrels while saving your bird food for your birds. This feeder accommodates 1 ear of corn.
Glass Water Feeder: Offer clean drinking water to attract more birds. Instantly provide drinking water for your birds during the warm summer months! Watch your birds drink and preen from the open water basin, the wraparound perch is perfectly sized for smaller birds. This decorative and durable hanging glass waterer includes the built-in metal hanger with blue tinted glass reservoir. Protect the glass from freezing. Durable see-through glass jar with blue plastic base. Disassemble for easy cleaning. Easy to clean, the jar sits flat for easy filling.
Dimensions: 7 3/4 inch diameter. 8 1/4 inches tall.
Heart Shaped Tabletop Birdbath: Show your true feelings for the birds with this sweet Heart Shaped Tabletop Birdbath. This cast iron tray can be filled with either bird food or water creating a lovely feeding or bathing spot for birds. Look! A bird has already settled on the edge, it is up to other birds to quickly follow suit.
WBU Mini High Perch™ Hummingbird Feeder: Our WBU Mini High Perch™ Hummingbird Feeder will help you attract hummingbirds to your yard. It features a high perch that allows hummingbirds to comfortably rest, providing you with better, longer views of the birds. The feeder has a clear bottom that allows you to see hummingbirds’ tongues lap up nectar (up to 12 times a second) as well as the level of the nectar. It's easy to fill, clean (top shelf dishwasher safe) and hang, and it's backed with a lifetime guarantee. The WBU Mini High Perch™ Hummingbird Feeder has 3 feeding ports and holds 0.5 cups (120 mL) of nectar. Attach the Mini High Perch™ Accessory Kit for protection from weather and ants.
Leaf Shaped Tabletop Birdbath: No garden is truly complete without plants! The Leaf Shaped Tabletop Birdbath is a cast iron tray in the form of a leaf can be filled with either food or water and as such will provide the birds with a lovely drinking or bathing spot. A bird has already settled on the edge, it is up to other birds to quickly follow suit.
All Natural Wool Dryer Balls are made by an environmentally conscious Canadian company that is committed to quality, hand-crafted Canadian design. Hand-crafted in Hamilton, Ontario, their Dryer balls save time and money! By reducing drying time, they save on electricity and preserve the lifespan of your clothing. Wool Dryer Balls are any safe alternative to chemical dryer sheets that work by coating the fabric fibres with toxic chemicals that build up over time. They work to reduce static cling by absorbing moisture from clothing in the dryer, maintaining a more humid environment and, therefore, cutting down on static build up.
Oriole Flower Feeder: The bright orange colour of Oriole Flower Feeder attracts these coveted birds to your yard. Allowing you to offer their top favourite foods, BirdBerry Jelly, Mealworms and fresh fruit, or even a cool sip of water, the Oriole Flower Feeder will take you and your birds through the entire season. Sturdy flower petals allow comfortable perching, and two metal spikes on the hanger allow for the offering of oranges or other fruit items.
Dimensions: 9" x 6.5" x 7.5"
Oriole Single Cup Feeder: This decorative metal and plastic feeder attracts Orioles and other favourite birds to your yard. Designed without drainage, the BPA Free plastic cup is ideal for offering live mealworms, roasted mealworms, BirdBerry Jelly, peanuts, Birdacious® Bark Butter Bits or even water to your backyard birds.
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Peanut Wreath filled with Peanuts: One of our most popular feeders the Peanut Wreath makes a great gift. The wreath comes full of peanuts and is wrapped in a beautiful bag with cute red and green accents. Hang this bird feeder in a tree and watch peanut loving birds, such as jays and woodpeckers, fly in for a meal. It's durable, yet it remains flexible so birds can pull out the whole peanuts. Multiple size openings make it possible for a variety of birds to feed. This versatile bird feeder is also great for offering suet balls or nesting material. The WBU Peanut Wreath is available in red, green, lime, purple, blue, black and white; This combo wrapped in a beautiful bag with cute red and green accents.
Peterson’s Backyard Birds of Eastern Canada Poster: The Peterson’s Backyard Birds of Eastern Canada Poster beautifully displays 77 of the most common backyard birds in the region. Printed on 80# coasted stock using fade resistant inks and the highest production values it is truly museum quality and suitable for framing. The poster is 19” x 27” in size and comes with a heavy-walled 2” mailing tube with plastic end caps for durable transportation and safe keeping.
Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Southern and Eastern Ontario: The Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Southern and Eastern Ontario is a beautiful fully laminated, lightweight, durable and weatherproof field guide to the butterflies found in Southern/Eastern Ontario. This guide features 110 species (ranging from common to rare) and 245 nature-pose field images for identification (showing both dorsal and ventral views). Separate images of male and female butterflies as well as seasonal and regional variants are also shown. Each species is accompanied by information about their size and status as well as flight season charts. The Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Southern and Eastern Ontario has an accordion fold when opens to show all the species, so there is no need to flip pages back and forth. Take it anywhere!
Dimensions: Folded 4” x 10” and open 28” x 10”
WBU QuickBites™ and Double QuickBites™ Feeder: This decorative metal and plastic feeder attracts your favourite birds to your backyard. Designed without drainage, the BPA Free plastic cup is ideal for offering live mealworms, roasted mealworms, BirdBerry Jelly, peanuts, Birdacious® Bark Butter Bits or even water to your backyard birds. The Double version features two cups and includes a decorative leaf design.
Seed Characters: Our Seed Cylinder Characters are a seasonal favourite every year and come in a mix of sunflower chips, peanuts, millet, almonds, cherries, blueberries and more to attract a variety of birds. All your favourites are here: Screech the Owl, Olive the Owl, Rascal the Raccoon, Dash the Gingerbread Man, Buttons the Snowman and more. Simply slide onto our WBU Seed Cylinder Feeder or WBU Dinner Bell™ Feeder and enjoy. Our Seed Characters are the perfect holiday addition to any yard and a great gift idea for the nature lovers on your list.
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Seed Character Packages: Available for a limited time only, our adorable WBU Seed Characters: Buttons, Dash, Rascal, Olive and Screech, are a mix of black oil sunflower, pecans, canola seed, safflower, peanuts, sunflower chips and fruit. Each package comes with one of the seed cylinder characters, a WBU Flying Start Combo Feeder (red or black) and is wrapped in a beautiful bag with cute red and green accents. These cylinders are the perfect addition to any yard and a great gift idea for the nature lovers on your list.
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Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 650 bird species plus regional populations found east of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations—more than 4,200 in total—with descriptive caption text pointing out the most important field marks. Each entry contains new text concerning frequency, nesting, behavior, food and feeding, voice description, and key identification features. Accounts also include brand-new maps created from information contributed by 110 regional experts across the continent. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America is an indispensable resource for all birders seeking an authoritative and portable guide to the birds of the East.
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Sibley's Pocket Guide - Backyard Birds of Ontario and Quebec: The Sibley Pocket Guide Birds of Ontario and Quebec is the perfect pocket-sized, folding guide for the bird lover and nature enthusiast. This beautiful guide highlights over 69 familiar species with artworks by the talented Ornithologist and bird illustrator. Waterproof for durability, this handy guide is a great source of portable information and ideal for field use by novices and experts alike.
Sibley's Pocket Guide – Common Bees of Eastern North America: The Sibley's Common Bees of Eastern North America Pocket Guide is a virtually indestructible, waterproof folding guide that covers the most frequently seen species in our region. The perfect size for your glove box, backpack or window ledge, the guide features 20 common bee groups with artworks by Joseph S. Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carril, co-authors of The Bees in your Backyard. Waterproof for durability, this handy guide is a great source of portable information and ideal for field use by novices and experts alike.
Handy fold-out format: 6 panels each 4″ X 9″.
Sibley's Pocket Guide - Raptors of Eastern North America: The Sibley's Raptors of Eastern North America Pocket Guide is a virtually indestructible, waterproof folding guide that covers the most frequently seen species in our region. The perfect size for your glove box, backpack or window ledge, the guide features 27 species (including in-flight silhouettes) with artworks by the talented Ornithologist and bird illustrator. Waterproof for durability, this handy guide is a great source of portable information and ideal for field use by novices and experts alike.
Handy fold-out format: 6 panels each 4″ X 9″.
Sibley's Pocket Guide - Warblers of Eastern North America: The Sibley's Warblers of Eastern North America Pocket Guide is a virtually indestructible, waterproof folding guide that covers the most frequently seen species in our region. The perfect size for your glove box, backpack or window ledge, the guide features 38 species with artworks by the talented Ornithologist and bird illustrator. Waterproof for durability, this handy guide is a great source of portable information and ideal for field use by novices and experts alike.
Handy fold-out format: 6 panels each 4″ X 9″.
Sibley's Pocket Guide – Waterbirds of the Great Lakes Region: The Sibley’s Waterbirds of the Great Lakes Region Pocket Guide is a virtually indestructible, waterproof folding guide that covers the most frequently seen species in our region. The perfect size for your glove box, backpack or window ledge, the guide features 51 species with artworks by the talented Ornithologist and bird illustrator. Waterproof for durability, this handy guide is a great source of portable information and ideal for field use by novices and experts alike.
Handy fold-out format: 6 panels each 4″ X 9″.
Solmate Socks: Life is too short for matching socks, especially when you can wear these fun and beautiful socks! Multi-patterned and colorful mismatched socks are a little something fun for your feet. Crafted with care in the USA from recycled cotton. By sourcing our cotton yarns from recycled materials Solmate Socks create an environmentally responsible cotton product by reducing the amount of virgin cotton that needs to be grown and at the same time helping to reduce landfill waste. Whether you wear them all day at work, save them for snuggling up on the couch at the end of the day or use them to help keep feet warm at night, a pair of Solmate Socks is perfect for everyone.
Tea Towels - Add life and character to your kitchen with our collection of Tea Towels featuring fun and colourful nature inspired designs, many with birds and other wildlife, plus some Holiday Designs. A perfect combination of form and function, these towels will make washing up less of a chore. Each towel is a generous size providing a large drying surface. Our Tea Towels can be used as decorative accents or as functional dish towels. Towels are made from 100% cotton and are machine washable.
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Suet Ball Spring Feeder: Attract woodpeckers, nuthatches, wrens and other suet-eating birds with our Suet Ball Spring Feeder. This straight bird spring with a decorative finish will hold 4 suet balls. The open structure allows birds can approach the suet balls easily and from all sides. This means several birds can enjoy the suet balls at the same time and is easily refilled through the opening in the top. Offered in a variety of designs, this light-weight, easy to fill feeder will be a hit at your feeding station.
Dimensions: 4.2” x 2.9” x 13”
Squngee® Deluxe-a Squirrel Feeder: What appears to be a harmless dangling ear of corn is really the Squngee® Deluxe- a Squirrel Feeder for the fearless squirrel. Unable to resist the temptation, squirrels will attempt to free the corn or WBU Nut Munch from the elastic hanger and then be sent safely bouncing. A bell mounted on the feeder alerts you when squirrels are going for a ride. A squirrel's patience will be tested, but you can count on this - they will be back. The Squngee® Deluxe Squirrel Feeder comes assembled and ready to hang. The Squngee® Deluxe- a Squirrel Feeder can hold two corn on the cobs or one WBU Nut Munch.
WBU Suet Cylinder Feeder: Our WBU No-melt Bark Butter® Dough Cylinders are long-lasting and easy to use. But with our WBU Suet Cylinder Feeder, now it's even easier to attract suet-eating birds to your bird feeding station. Simply drop one of our exclusive WBU No-melt Dough Cylinders into the powder coated metal feeder, hang it, and watch your birds enjoy. Bird food and hardware not included. This feeder has the capacity to hold 1 WBU Suet Dough Cylinder.
Dimensions: 9" x 5" diameter
Tealish Fine Teas: Tealish is a modern tea boutique from here in Ontario, which was started in 2005 with the intention of changing peoples perception of tea from the boring teabags we all grew up with. To show people how incredibly fun, delicious, healthy and amazing premium loose leaf tea or bagged tea is. Using teas of premium quality married with colourful healthy ingredients including whole fruit pieces, nuts, fragrant spices and flower petals, their teas are carefully crafted to ensure the highest quality and best flavour. Canadian Company.
Weatherstick: The Canadian Weatherstick has been predicting weather for Canadian Pioneers for years. Now this unique and rustic weather foreteller is available for everyone to enjoy! Mount your weatherstick about 6' high on an outside wall of your house, garage, a fence or a door, where it will be exposed to weather. Stick will bend up to foretell fair feather and down for foul. Made in Canada.