A BIT OF TRIVIA

Did you know bluebirds like baked apples?

LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

Maybe I'll get a new bird bath for Memorial Day?
As mentioned earlier, my husband blew a hole in mine. I happened to be looking for anything that would imitate a bird bath. Shallow serving tray or a large pail, anything that might work. Then I came across this.

A couple times a year he likes to go panning gold for a hobby.
What a great idea!( "I have my moments") I cleaned out one of his gold pans, put about 2 inches of water in it, then some stones on the bottom for birds to set on and drink comfortably.

This is now my new bird bath. Think He'll notice. I can't wait for his comments!!!

WE HAVE SUNSHINE

Well we have sunshine and the temperature is predicted to be in the 70's for a few days.
I moved my garden plants from the house to the patio. My husband worked up an area for a rock garden
last summer. Even though summer was a bit short, this first time garden turned out pretty well.
Next my husband is going to till the garden area.

One of my favorite feeders.

We planted a few thing but didn't have as much success as we would like to have seen. Last year it was cold until the 2nd week of June.

This year we are planting now!
The bird feeders have been up for a couple of months with great success attracting yellow finch, raspberry finch, pine siskin and chickadees.
http://www.birdsnestinginn.com/

GOOD GRIEF!

Three Summers ago, my husband and I decided to start landscaping our backyard into a Bird Habitat. We started this project not only because we enjoy watching wild birds but to help preserve wild life.
We are new at this so we plant and build as we learn.
I know to attract and keep birds visiting year after year there are four major elements to have. Water supply like a pond or bird bath food supply, nesting areas and adequate cover.
In June 2008 we purchased four blossom trees. Two Prairie Fire crab trees and two Pink Spring Crab.
once we marked off where we would plant each one, the digging began.
My husband dug a three foot wide and two foot deep area. Before putting the tree in we mixed natural ground and a small amount of horse manure that we had in a pile for five years.

He placed the tree in the spot as I held it straight and he filled in the area. Then he set the hose by it to trickle water for a while. As we planted the other trees, every thing went well until we looked up and the first tree was floating away. Told you we were new at this. So a word of advice, "look up more often".

Here are a couple of photos of what our yard looked like in summer 2008.

Back of house

(Pretty cool how the names of each tree just floats next to it.)