What you need to know to create a bird garden at home
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- In this episode, we explore ways to attract birds to the home garden and promote their thriving! We will discuss plants, water sources, and baby birds! Let me know in the comments what your favorite bird is.
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Lovely video, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. :)
Great video!
I think you would love my yard. I planted native prairie from tall to shorter in my front yard and side of house. I have native plantings all over the other areas mixed in with annuals. I even have gourd plants growing just to see the hummingbird moths and hummingbirds since they open in the evening. I took down a dying maple and it became a small brush pile that is now covered in morning glories and honeysuckle. I have the standing birdbath that has to be cleaned out 2 to 3 times a day on the hot days just to keep it clean from all the birds. I have so many birds that my raised veggy gardens have very few pest issues. Throw in the bee lawn that I mow in sections and its fun, although the house wren is yelling at me again so her latest brood is ready to leave the nest box soon. I have a cherry tree and several other tree/shrubs like American Plum.
As for bird feeders, I do use them to put out seed on really cold winter days, but since I don't cut the prairie back until late spring they have some shelter and food. I do use a vet grade cleaner on the bird bath and feeders periodically as well. I am now a registered Monarch waystation as I have had the full life cycle for many years now along with swallowtails. So bird friendly also has many other perks.
Sounds like a very dreamy place to be!! The wildlife appreciate what you've done. :) Sounds like you have lots of different garden areas and lots of diversity. So good for the ecosystem!
Keep going girl☺️ Such an important message🙏🐛💪
Thank you so much!!
Great video! I heard on a webinar once that caterpillars are bird baby food and it blew my mind. Even raptors start out primarily feeding their very young chicks caterpillars. Wanted to share that fact with you too.
Exactly!! Most baby birds can only eat caterpillars and other soft body insects! Too much focus is on seeds and feeders. We need both seeds (preferably from our native plants themselves) and caterpillars (and caterpillars need our native plants, too, especially Keystone species!). :) I could babble all day about it, LOL.
I read too that caterpillars have more antioxidants than most insects because of how much plant tissue they eat, so for birds they're like protein and vegetables combined!
@@Hayley-sl9lm that’s so cool!😎
Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet
Thank you!
I saw you had a black cherry tree. Just a head's up they are prone to falling over from the wind (wind blow) because they outgrow their surrounding trees and become very top heavy. The tree grows rapidly (trust me, I have one). I hope yours is far from your home for safety.
It is far from the house, and downhill from it, too. :) Thanks for mentioning that. There are some oaks trying to come up next to it, and I wonder if it could use some other trees growing near / around it to knit together their roots for better stability? Thoughts?
Also, another question: has yours fallen over? If not, has it lost large branches?
I’m so glad it hasn’t fallen on your house or caused you too much trouble.
There’s a very unkempt black cherry tree in the neighborhood that has vines growing on it and it looks very top heavy. But so far, it’s still standing. I think it’s extra awkward in shape due to it’s not really maintained. I keep pulling up invasive vine seedlings from around my tree. Cross your fingers for me.
You sound like you’re doing good maintenance on your tree.