Well just say yippie for me. I just got a purple martin bird house. Finally! Now the purple martins are already back in the united states and have selected their nesting sites, having babies and all that stuff you want purple martins to do in your yard, but I have always wanted a bird house [...]
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Purple Martin Bird Houses
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Houses, Bird Species, Birds, Habitat, Wildlife on June 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Attracting New Bird Species with Platform Feeders
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Feeders, Bird Feeding, Birds on March 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Hey! It’s a bird watchers favorite time of year, migration season!! This is the time of year we get to see all different types of birds in our yards and gardens that aren’t residents of our regions or state at all, but species just passing through on their way to their summer homes and breeding [...]
Great Backyard Bird Count
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Species on February 8, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s almost spring, the bluebirds are establishing their territories, the chickadees are starting to spat since it’s soon to be time for them to nest and the screech owls are beginning their courting songs. It’s also time for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society’s annual Great Backyard Bird Count!! Yippie!
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Dove Shelf
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Houses, Doves, Habitat on January 7, 2009 | Comments Off
I ran across this dove shelf plan at LumberJocks blog and am just taken by it. I’ve seen and built a few different styles of nesting shelves, but this one is a cakewalk to build. WayneC. the author and creator of the piece, states that he built the shelf to replace a wire plant shelf [...]
Ground Bird Baths for Garden Habitats
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Baths, Garden, Garden Decor, Habitat on November 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Where to shop: Cast Stone Cement Ground, Low Level Short Pedestal Bird Baths. I admit I have a bird bath issue. I love bird baths and seem to be a collector of sorts to the point where it’s probably some sort of personality disorder but I think my neighbors are happy it’s bird baths I [...]
Bird Bath Waterfall Pond
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Baths, Birds, Wildlife, tagged Backyard Birds, Bird Baths, Bird Watching, wild birds on August 13, 2008 | Comments Off
My new favorite backyard bird watching piece of equipment is an in ground, shallow waterfall pond. I swore that I would never go to the hassle of any electric fountain type system, but I was wrong. I have no desire for a garden pond, as in a full size pond. After years I have finally [...]
Lloyd Spitalnik Photographer
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Species, tagged Backyard Birds, photography, wild birds, Wildlife on June 12, 2008 | Comments Off
Lloyd Spitalnik Photographer by golly visit this man. His photography is wonderful!! Below are a couple of thumbnails, but it does not do him justice. It’s just a tiny bit of what the man has and only the small versions of course. He has several galleries of wild birds separated by families. Birds of Prey, [...]
Backyard Bird Watchers Forum
Posted in Backyard Birds on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is just a quick recommendation for a place to go ask questions: Backyard Bird Watchers Forum. It’s located at GardenWeb which is pretty darn big. Anyhow, I do like this message board. If you have questions about what to feed a certain species of wild birds or need help with an id, this is [...]
Bird Checklists of the United States
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Species, tagged Bird Species, birding, wild birds on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a web site recommendation for any backyard birder in the US. LOVE this site! Bird Checklists of the United States. They are the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center and provided a checklist of birds which have been spotted in every state. This is necessary for any backyard bird watcher when trying to [...]
Rose Breasted Grosbeak
Posted in Backyard Birds on October 7, 2007 | Comments Off
For the past week I have had a few rose breasted grosbeaks at my feeders. There have been two females, a very shy juvenile male and an adult male. They have been gobbling up black oil sunflower seeds like nobody’s business., and mostly sticking to my platform feeder with the adult male preferring a [...]
