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Hummingbirds Return
My friend Karyl at Native Plant Wildlife Gardeners is already seeing Ruby-throated Hummingbirds in her Georgia garden. Lucky her! But no matter where you live in the country, the time is soon...
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The Wild Turkey So Much More Than Thanksgiving Dinner
The Wild Turkey is a very different creature than its factory farmed cousin. You can see them in forested areas with interspersed clearings, and even attract them to your wildlife garden. It’s the time...
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River Health and Your Ecosystem Garden
A birding adventure at the Cambridge Waterfront of the Choptank River on the eastern shore of Maryland to see the wintering ducks. Cambridge Waterfront You can tell a lot about the health of a river,...
View ArticleCaring for Birds in the Winter Wildlife Garden
Your wildlife garden can be the key to bird survival through the winter. You can create rest stops for migrating birds to provide them with everything they need to fuel their long journey. It’s easy to...
View ArticleAttracting Birds to Guatemala Farms: A How To
I returned this week from a birding FAM trip for almost 2 weeks in Guatemala, where I saw some amazingly beautiful birds and got to visit some of the coffee fincas and preserves that are working to...
View ArticleIf you Build it, take two
Another example of the adaptibility of birds in finding ways to meet their needs in a human-dominated environment. This cactus wren outside Tuscon, Arizona has discovered a very smart way to get a...
View ArticleHow to Find Which Birds Migrate Through Your Garden
I received this question in a comment on another post and thought I would answer it here for anyone else who is interested: I don’t know anything about which birds migrate through my area yet. I know...
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How to Provide Water for Birds When the Birdbath Freezes
Wild birds need access to clean water all year round, but when winter temperatures dip into the freezing range, this may be harder to find. Birds can quench their thirst by eating snow, but this...
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American Robins in Your Wildlife Garden
I’ve been watching the Robins pecking through last winters leaves in their search for earthworms, snails, grubs and insects. We tend to think of sightings of American Robins as signs of spring, but...
View ArticleUltimate Guide to Birdscaping Your Garden
Our species is very good at taking. We take down a woodland to build another Walmart. We take off mountain tops because it’s cheaper to extract the coal. When it comes to habitat we take and take and...
View ArticleCreating Rest Stops for Migratory Birds in Your Ecosystem Garden
You know when you’re driving along the highway for hours and suddenly you have to find a rest stop RIGHT AWAY? Well, birds need rest stops, too! Imagine you’ve flown all night, heading south to your...
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Bluebirds in the Wildlife Garden
I was fortunate to attend a Bluebird workshop over the weekend at Mount Cuba Center in Hockessin, DE led by my friend Katharine Patterson. I’ll be returning to talk about the wonderful work Mount Cuba...
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Hummingbirds Reach Northern Virginia
I told you several weeks ago that the first Ruby-throated Hummingbirds had arrived at the Gulf Coast from their southern wintering grounds, but by now they are as far north as northern Virginia, so...
View ArticleBread is NOT Bird Food
Earlier this week I was researching some new bird gardening strategies and I was flipping through my stacks of bird gardening books and I noticed that the majority of these books spend most of their...
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This Garden is For the Birds
…and the bees, and the flowers and the trees. Sorry, that song got stuck in my head when I was thinking about a title, so now you’ll think of me for the rest of the day when you’re humming it Seriously...
View ArticleCreating Rest Stops for Migratory Birds in Your Ecosystem Garden
You know when you’re driving along the highway for hours and suddenly you have to find a rest stop RIGHT AWAY? Well, birds need rest stops, too! Imagine you’ve flown all night, heading south to your...
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Hummingbirds Return
My friend Karyl at Native Plant Wildlife Gardeners is already seeing Ruby-throated Hummingbirds in her Georgia garden. Lucky her! But no matter where you live in the country, the time is soon...
View ArticleCaring for Birds in the Winter Wildlife Garden
Your wildlife garden can be the key to bird survival through the winter. You can create rest stops for migrating birds to provide them with everything they need to fuel their long journey. It’s easy to...
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The Wild Turkey So Much More Than Thanksgiving Dinner
The Wild Turkey is a very different creature than its factory farmed cousin. You can see them in forested areas with interspersed clearings, and even attract them to your wildlife garden. It’s the time...
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River Health and Your Ecosystem Garden
A birding adventure at the Cambridge Waterfront of the Choptank River on the eastern shore of Maryland to see the wintering ducks. Cambridge Waterfront You can tell a lot about the health of a river,...
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