Friday, January 28, 2011

Three Great Reasons to Attract Wild Birds to the Backyard Garden

I love bird watching. Yesterday afternoon, the Great Horned Owl that patrols the woods behind our orchard began hooting, and I could hear him moving about the forest as his cries intensified. We had slate gray juncos on the feeder, and a big downy woodpecker on the pine beyond the rhododendrons. But birds are more than just beautiful; they provide organic insect control and many other great functions in the natural world.

Read my latest article, below -

Three Great Reasons to Attract Wild Birds to the Backyard Garden











And my book -

Attracting Birds to the Garden

1 comments:

cindy said...

I would love to have an owl lurking in the woods outback. Our adventuresome birds right now are Blue Jays. I'll wait the return of others to the feeders and each day put whole peanuts in the feeder for Mr. B Jay. Nice post