By planting fruit and berry plants you can bring a wider variety of birds to your garden or backyard. There are many birds that are primarily fruit eaters and they may not visit your seed feeders. A way to draw them into your garden is by providing fruit. But supplying birds with dried fruit is expensive. […]
backyard habitats
Snags – Homes for Animals
Snags are standing dead trees which provide food (insects), cover in bad weather and places to raise young. Snags may be created from living trees if there is a shortage of safe natural snags. Created snags can be expected to last for a long period of time. Poor quality or deformed trees, such as those […]
What is a Naturalist's Garden?
I have what is called a naturalist’s garden or a backyard habitat. You can see some photos of my naturalist garden on my Flickr site. It is easy to start a naturalist’s garden. You can take an inventory of your garden and replace plants one at a time, to those that attract native animals. Or […]
Places to Raise Young – Creating Your Backyard Habitat
A place to raise young is a final feature to finish a backyard habitat. This feature serves many purposes. a safe place to give birth a safe haven to rear offspring nesting sites to incubate eggs den sites to rear babies undisturbed courtship and mating areas To decide what you can provide take note […]
Early Spring Blooming Plants to Attract Bumble Bees
Bumble Bees are among the very first insects we see flying in early spring. Gnats and flies seem to emerge first, then the hairy bees are seen several weeks later. Bumble Bees have hairy bodies which provide insulation from the still chilly weather of spring. When they are flying around the trees are beginning to […]