My garden from our birds’ perspective
I found some unlikely encouragement for my general lack of a green thumb in the book I am reading, “The Backyard Bird Lover’s Guide” by Jan Mahnken and Jeffrey C. Domm.
Cover is an important aspect of attracting birds to your premises. Indeed, I find one of the more engaging characteristics of birds is their scorn for absolutely immaculate yards. They consider your brush pile, the briar patch, and the tangle of weeds behind the garage totally irresistible. If you can provide some trees and shrubbery, so much the better. Birds are an ornament more common to a yard that is less than spic and span.
Ahem. So that mess in my yard is not a mess at all. It is wildlife habitat. Crabgrass, dandelion, thistle, milkweed and whatever that is that took over last year’s tomato garden…it is all part of a carefully planned bird landscape. I have it here in print. On page 8.
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