Gardening for Birds
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Gardening for Birds:
One of the joys of gardening, is attracting wildlife such as birds into your garden. Not only do
birds provide viewing pleasure, they also help with insect and pest control. Typically bird watching is limited to the warmer summer months, but by adding a few perennials and shrubs into your garden, you can attract birds into your garden all winter long. Natural Food and Habitat for Birds
Nothing beats natural, native vegetation to feed and attract birds in your area into your garden. When you garden for birds, you provide natural food and habitat, as the ideal way to attract a wide variety of birds to your garden during the winter. Natural habitat and natural food sources have the advantage of not only providing food and shelter for birds, but will also attract bees, butterflies and other critters into your yard. Gardening for birds also includes providing habitat at the edge of your property by planting shrubs native to your area. In addition to providing an abundant natural food source, habitat plantings also provide shelter from predators and will encourage wild bird nesting, increasing the varieties of bird that visit your yard year after year.To bring winter birds in closer for viewing, provide a food source adjacent to your home in the form of perennials and shrubs, planted in your garden that produce seed heads supplemented by bird seed in feeders. Providing a natural source of bird food is easy no matter what size yard you have. During the summer you can keep deadheading flowers to promote repeating blooms and sturdy stems, but once fall has arrived leave them alone so the maturing flower heads can produce seeds. The seed-heads of perennials are nature's bird feeders for seed-eating birds like sparrows, chickadees and grosbeaks, while the black seed of the purple coneflower serve as food for goldfinches. This fall forget about deadheading flowers, and hauling off all the garden trimmings. Let your garden clean-up duties wait until spring and the birds that don’t migrate to warmer climes for the winter will be thankful.
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| Type of Food |
Natural Source |
Birds Attracted |
| Nectar |
Various flowers, especially red tubular flowers, such as columbine, lobelia, penstemon, azalea, fuchsia, Trumpet Vine, Bee Balm, Catmint and native honeysuckle |
Hummingbirds, orioles |
| Nuts | Oak, hickory, buckeye, chestnut, walnut |
Woodpeckers, nuthatches, jays |
| Seeds | Pine, spruce, fir, maple, alder, sunflowers, coneflowers, asters, goldenrod, grasses and other perennials | Woodpeckers, grosbeaks, finches, bobwhites, cardinals, chickadees, crossbills, jays, nuthatches, junco, sparrows |
| Fruit |
Holly, dogwood, serviceberry, cherry, elderberry, Red Mulberry, hackberry, bayberry, raspberry, blueberry, High-bush Cranberry, Virginia creeper, grape | Thrushes, Cedar Waxwing, bluebirds, sparrows, woodpeckers, tanagers, junco, grouse, thrashers, wren, flickers, Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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