This is a wildlife project you can do with kids or for an adult who just likes to make backyard bird friendly items. Fruit cups make great winter bird feeding when berries and natural fruit foods are getting scarce.
Tip: If doing this with children, just go ahead and go outside right now. It’s messy. Take …
Birds are notorious for being attracted to door wreaths which is something I learned all about this past year. I am living in a neighborhood for the first time and decided that I would try and be neighborhoodly and get my first ever door wreath. Where I come from you don’t bother because the deer …
» Read the rest...Make a winter roosting box which can also be used as a bird house in the summer for nesting backyard birds. This is one of the woodworking projects we put together and thought we’d share. We have put two of these up and really enjoyed them. The size for nesting birds is suitable for screech …
» Read the rest... One bit of weirdness that I have noticed in my area is that there is no evidence of yellow bellied sapsuckers. No tell tale, perfectly spaced holes in tree trunks, no quiet keer calls, no nothing. They aren’t an uncommon bird here either, but are a common winter resident.
At my previous home there were …
Looks like I have a downy woodpecker roosting in one of my bluebird houses. Yay me! A few weeks ago we cleaned out the bird boxes for winter once I noticed the birds were checking them out in a flurry of hunting for winter roost spots. Winterizing involves removing old nests, wasps nests, general clean …
» Read the rest...This morning was pretty chilly and the bird feeders were all quite active. The hummingbirds are at the end of their migration cycle – I only have juveniles left. The males left about two weeks ago, females last week and this week I have the poor juveniles all fluffed up and cold, just sitting on …
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