Considerations When Building A Backyard Pond

What style of pond?
If you have never had a pond before it pays to spend some time deciding what type of pond you want. Do you want an ornamental pond with a fountain? Or do you want a pond that attracts [...]

Your Backyard Birds: American Robin

American Robin Scientific Name:  Turdus migratorius
The state bird of Connecticut, Michigan and Wisconsin, the American Robin is a familiar songbird in the thrush family.  They live in towns and woodlands, and are commonly seen on suburban lawns exhibiting their “running and [...]

Bird House Kits – Bird Watching In Your Own Backyard

Birding enthusiasts find all kinds of ways to attract birds to their gardens and backyards. They often use bird feeders of various sizes and shapes, filled with a variety of food and other things to attract many different species of birds.
A bird bath is another common fixture, providing a place for passing birds to perch [...]

Successful Backyard Birding Tips

Bird watching is a thrilling and fulfilling hobby that is suitable for people of all lifestyles. It is also a hobby would has become more popular over the years with over 30,000 people searching for bird watching related terms on the internet every month.

The great thing about birding is that is it a hobby that [...]

Attracting Birds to Your Backyard

Birdhouses:

Birdhouses are basically made in many sizes and with a variety of different wood materials. The birds enjoy a safe haven subject to the outside temperatures and predators and it allows them to nest. Birds always need somewhere to nest, so why not build a variety of wooden birdhouses in different sizes for [...]

Backyard Vacations!

3. Landscape Marlboro: Your Personal Garden Escape
There are numerous traditional landscaping and garden styles Marlboro which you can model your own after. Or, you can be creative and incorporate elements from different styles to create a look of your own design. One of the most important things in landscape design, however, is to work with [...]

Can I get bird flu from cleaning my backyard bird bath?

Can I get bird flu (or possibly anything else) by cleaning my backyard bird feeders or bird bath? I typically dump the water in the bird bath once a week and brush it clean with hot water before filling it. I live in the great-lakes area (north of Lake Erie) and I don’t [...]

Winter Bird Care – Help Your Backyard Birds Through the Winter

One of the harshest facts about the winter months, especially in the northern states, is that many factors combine to make it hard for birds to find food.  First, there is just less of it.  Plants that many birds might feed on, such as berries, have just stopped producing in many areas, and those birds [...]

Beautiful Backyard Bird Watching

Bird watching has become a backyard hobby for many people and bird feeders are the best way to attract these birds. Different birds are attracted to different seeds. Acorns, for example, attract chickadees, jays, quails, and woodpeckers. Millet, on the other hand, attracts doves, finches, pheasants, native sparrows, and Carolina wrens.
Seeds from a black locust [...]

How to Attract More Birds to Your Backyard and Birdhouses

If you have already put up some birdhouses in your own backyard, you are probably wondering how you are going to attract and get more birds to come and visit your birdhouses. This article provides some ideas that you can easily implement to attract more birds to your backyard and your birdhouses.

First, as with [...]

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