Love the birds in their free and wild world in your backyard
Planting a variety of native trees, shrubs, and flowers is a way to increase the number of bird species that will visit a backyard habitat. Also it is important to provide cover, shelter, nesting sites, food, and water which are the five basic things that birds need.
With a little planning and simple landscaping you can help moderate garden pests naturally in your yard. Your weapon: bug-eating birds.
Hummingbirds delight children and adults.
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The Wildlife Habitat Journal - Restoring and Exploring Wildlife Habitat in Your Own Backyard
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If you love the sight of birds and butterflies or want to help restore wildlife habitat, The Wildlife Habitat Journal is for you! Instruction manual, workbook, and journal, this delightful little book suggests steps to attract garden wildlife and pages to record your progress. Plant lists are provided for birds, butterflies and hummingbirds with suggestions for further research.
Wildlife-Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden a Haven for Beneficial Insects, Amphibians and Birds
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 11/25/2009)
No matter what size the garden or where it's located, attracting and supporting wildlife is one of the most beneficial of gardening activities. Although the common perception is that wildlife can only be found on large tracts of country land, Creeser demonstrates that, in nature, the "field of dreams" rule applies: if you build it, she says, they will come. By they, she means insects, birds, butterflies, and amphibians that can add life to the garden, and that need a garden habitat in order to survive.
Backyard Birdhouse
Amazon Price: $30.99 (as of 11/25/2009)
This house with a 4x4" floor is suitable for most common backyard birds including bluebirds, titmice, swallows, nuthatches, chickadees and wrens. The 1-1/2" hole is protected by a slate predator guard to ward off pesky squirrels.
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Easy Garden Projects to Make, Build, and Grow: 200 Do-It-Yourself Ideas to Help You Grow Your Best Garden Ever
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Want more butterflies and birds in the yard? Build a quick fruit feeder or a simple tray feeder
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Backyard Birds 2009 Calendar
Amazon Price: $13.99 (as of 11/25/2009)
This calendar displays close-up photography of favorite backyard beauties with common and scientific names included.
Black-Capped Chickadee (Wild Bird Guides)
Chickadees are among the most familiar and beloved of birds
Black-Capped Chickadee (Wild Bird Guides)
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Every aspect of a species' life in the wild -- courtship, nesting, brooding, communication, foraging, flying, fighting -- is covered in text by a leading ornithologist, and photographs by top nature photographers.
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RSPB Children's Guide to Birdwatching
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101 Ways to Help Birds
Amazon Price: $15.56 (as of 11/25/2009)
This engaging book presents 101 things individuals can do to help both individual birds and bird populations as a whole. It also explains exactly how these actions can make a difference--what wrongs they help correct and what improvements they can bring about. Bird-friendly (and environment-friendly) practices are described in detail: things anyone can do around the home and garden, at work, at the store, in their community, in the outdoors, and on the road. Anyone who appreciates wild birds knows that the animals need our help. This timely guide shows bird-lovers what they can do.
A visit to Birding Depot will start you on the birding journey of fun.
- How to Attract Wild Birds to Your Backyard
- This guide contains everything you need to start attracting wild birds into your yard.
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To really enjoy the birds at the feeder that you are feeding, invest in a good bird book.
The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide: Attracting, Nesting, Feeding
Amazon Price: $18.96 (as of 11/25/2009)
Whether undertaken for practical reasons (insect control) or pure enjoyment, attracting birds to one's own backyard is an activity that can involve the whole family.
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Garden Bird - Unisex Short-sleeve T-shirt - 100% Preshrunk Cotton - available in Small, Medium, Large, X-Large and XX-Large Features Yellow Warbler, White-Throated Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, Baltimore Oriole, Tufted Titmouse, Blue Jay, Downy Woodpecker, Dove, Robin, Eastern Bluebird, Purple Martin, American Goldfinch, Evening Grosbeak, White-Throated Sparrow, Ruby-Throated hummingbird, Black-Capped Chickadee, Northern cardinal, Cedar Waxwing, American Goldfinch
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Attracting Birds to Your Backyard: 536 Ways to Create a Haven for Your Favorite Birds (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
"Attracting Birds to Your Backyard provides all the essential techniques and information for success in feeding, housing, and gardening for birds. Sally Roth has done a great service to backyard bird watchers."
Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 11/25/2009)
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50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques (50 Fast Techniques Series)
This book cuts to the chase with how to get great animal, wedding, nature, people etc,..shots. It explains in detail what settings you should use for each shot as well as what settings the pros use for all the great magazine photos.
Amazon Price: $12.75 (as of 11/25/2009)
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Beautiful Video of Hummingbirds
and some amazing closeups and slow motion shots
Hummingbirds
http://www.WildlifeTheater.com High quality video I shot in my back yard of ruby-throated hummingbirds hovering, eating, fighting. Features lots of slow-motion shots, and includes a Nessus Sphinx moth, an insect that's often confused for a hummingbird. There are more videos like this at www.WildlifeTheater.com
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Grandma and I - Avid Birders
- Bird Watching with Children
- "One of my earliest memories is of walking through the forest with my grandmother. Together we identified every tree and flower, and named and admired every bird that sang."
Great Bird Books for Kids - How to become a Backyard Birdwatcher
Backyard Birding Guides
Bateman's Backyard Birds
Featuring dramatic, detailed, and scientifically accurate color illustrations by the acclaimed wildlife artist Robert Bateman, this beautiful book is written on a level that can be enjoyed by older children as well as by adults who are newcomers to bird watching.
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Everything You Need to Know About Birding and Backyard Bird Attraction
With equal measures of wit, scientific wisdom, and homespun common sense, Alan Pistorius makes his lifelong love of birds come alive for anyone who wants to take up birding as a hobby or merely gain more pleasure from the birds around the home, cottage, or camp
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Backyard Birding for Kids
This informative field guide and activity book teaches kids about birds of all varieties, in the city, country, desert, or at the beach-because no matter where you go, you're bound to spot a bird! Kids will learn about making the backyard bird-friendly, building a bird feeder, and creating their own bird watching notebook to record sightings, locations, information, and notes from the field.
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Backyard Birding (Nature Companion Series)
Backyard Birding is part of a four-book series, The Nature Companions;
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Attracting Butterflies & Hummingbirds to Your Backyard: Watch Your Garden Come Alive With Beauty on the Wing (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
Gardeners who follow Sally Roth's advice are sure to fill their gardens with a rainbow of wings. Sally offers a multitiude of fun and inexpensive gardening plans and projects that will entice hummers and butterflies alike."--
Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 11/25/2009)
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Bird Feeder Web Cams
- Ivy's Bird Feeder Cam
- Bird feeder web cam - pictures taken out the kitchen window over looking the Redwood rain forest in her backyard. The pictures refresh about every 10 minutes. Boulder Creek, CA
Backyard Birds 2009 Calendar
Backyard Birds 2009 Wall Calendar
Amazon Price: $12.96 (as of 11/25/2009)
Magazines about Birding and an Amazing DVD
Check out the DVD "Hooked on Hummingbirds"
Hooked on Hummingbirds
The videography is amazing and clear, capturing moments the human eye would never see. The narration is educational and provides wonderful facts about the birds. This is a real winner with my 7-yr-old, 3-yr-old and the parents! DVD
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Backyard Bird Newsletter
Relax and experience the beauty and tranquility of birds in your own backyard. Backyard Bird Newsletter offers tips on feeding, gardening, and more.
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Your Big Backyard
For children aged 3 to 7 years. Filled with activities, simple stories and wild animals that the little ones love. It draws preschoolers closer to nature and gets them ready to read. Youngsters will enjoy the seasonal crafts, simple cooking recipes, fun g
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Birder's World
I completely suggest this magazine to anyone who is a birdwatcher or just loves birds in general!
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Backyard Birding Links
- Backyard Birding
- By the Baltimore Bird Club, a chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society.
- Hummingbirds
- Source for information on attracting, watching, feeding, and studying North American hummingbirds.
- Recycled Materials Make Bird Feeder
- This bird feeder can be made in the classroom, requiring simple tools and materials, in less than an hour.
- BellaOnline - Birding
- Short articles on various birding subjects, with photographs, recipes, and gardening information.
- Stokes Birds at Home - Birding
- Information about attracting and watching birds, including feeding, housing, ID, gardening, and behavior.
- Backyard Birding Tips
- A weekly newsletter by Ron Patterson, with ideas and tips on feeding and gardening for wild birds.
- Birds of McHenry County, Illinois
- Web cam and video captures from a backyard feeder.
- Gardener's Guide to Winter Bird Feeding
- Articles from Better Homes and Gardens.
- Blue Tit Nest Box
- Infrared images of nesting Blue Tits in Henfield, UK.
- Backyard Nature Specialist
- Personal site from Minnesota with tips for attracting wild birds and other wildlife to your backyard.
- My Backyard Birds
- Information on backyard bird watching and feeding. Includes community forum and photo gallery.
- Leisa's Backyard Habitat
- Photos and notes of backyard birding in Lexington, Kentucky.
- Bird Chatters
- Backyard birding chat and message board.
- Backyard Birding Basics
- How to become a birdwatcher; introduction to bird anatomy and bird behavior.
- Eugene Wild Bird Cam
- Movies of a backyard bird cam in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
- Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
- Plans for building Nest Structures, Feeders, and Photo Blinds for North Dakota Wildlife. Has plans for a wide range of species.
- Bird Feeder WebCam
- Live bird feeder webcam with visits from Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Cardinals, Squirrels and the like.
- Birding for Dodos
- Basic tips for backyard birders.
- Birdhouse WebRing
- Webring for bird house lovers, collectors, and designers.
- Blackthumb Bob's Birds
- Bird photos and information.
- Birding 101
- Articles and links to for beginning birders, including bird species, behavior, migration, history, and supplies.
- Rod's Bird Box Camera
- Images from inside a camera-equipped nest box. Following Great Tits building a nest and raising young.
- Joannes Backyard Habitat
- Photographs of birds and butterflies from a backyard at an undisclosed location in the north-central US.
- Backyard Birds
- Complete information on bird houses, feeders, food, landscaping and books. Includes wild bird store and BirdCam.
- Backyard Birding with George and Kit Harrison
- Current seasonal information on backyard birds, bird feeding, backyard habitats, water areas, birdhouses and more from award-winning authors George and Kit Harrison. Books and videos available.
- Wild Birds Unlimited Bird FeederCam
- Images, updated every 45 seconds, of a backyard feeder in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Wild Bird Center
- A family of franchise stores serving the backyard birdwatcher, with bird resources, activities, and information about products.
- Wild Bird Feeder Preferences
- Explains which bird feeder and food to use to attract different types of birds.
- Backyard Birder
- The basics of backyard birding including bird seed, bird feeders,and squirrel control to attract wild birds to your yard.
- Birds UK
- A personal look at birds in a back garden in the UK.
- British Garden Birds
- Photographs, descriptions to aid identification, and notes on the birds that visit a suburban garden in Sheffield, England.
- Backyard Birding Tips
- Collection of articles from the Wild Bird Center of Walnut Creek, California.
- WildBirds
- Guide to feeding, attracting, and identifing backyard birds.
- All Birds
- Basic tips for beginning bird watchers in the U.S., including nest boxes, identification, anatomy, bird shapes, and feeding.
- Backyard Bird Feeding
- Introduction from the Missouri Department of Conservation.
- Birdzilla Radio
- Live Internet broadcast and archives of the Texas-based Sam Crowe Show, covering various topics related to wild birds, birding, and feeding birds.
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- Backyard birdwatching articles.
- Backyard Birdwatching Almanac
- Articles about how to attract, care for, and observe wild birds. Includes tips on dealing with common pests and predators and landscaping your yard for birds and wildlife.
- Sarah's Purple Martins and Bluebird Trail
- Personal experiences with Purple Martins, Bluebirds, and Tree Swallows in northern Illinois.
- A Bird's Home
- Articles on attracting and watching backyard birds in the northeastern US.
- Mike & Jo's Nestwatch
- Diary and photos of Blue Tits and Great Tits nesting in a suburban English garden.
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- A few tips for attracting birds to your backyard.
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- Specifications for building nestboxes for 10 species of Texas birds.
- Birdhouse Dimensions
- Recommended box sizes for some North American cavity nesting birds.
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- Information on food, feeders, water, shelter, and birdscaping.
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- Bird rehabilitation site with information about baby birds and what to do if you find a wild bird in trouble.
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- Start planning your garden
- Give new life to cast-offs, and just make gardening more fun - recycle
- Backyard Birds in the Spotlight
- Black-Capped Chickadee (Wild Bird Guides)
- Birds of the Garden
- NEW! Children's Guide to Birdwatching
- Useful, Easy to Read, Great Gift, Makes a Difference
- A visit to Birding Depot will start you on the birding journey of fun.
- T-shirts
- To really enjoy the birds at the feeder that you are feeding, invest in a good bird book.
- Great Apparel with Birds on Amazon
- Backyard birding and photography
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- Grandma and I - Avid Birders
- Great Bird Books for Kids - How to become a Backyard Birdwatcher
- Bird Feeder Web Cams
- Backyard Birds 2009 Calendar
- Magazines about Birding and an Amazing DVD
- Video of a Male Rufous Hummingbird
- Robert Bateman Nature Art
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- Gifts for the Birdwatcher
- Which owl is your favorite?
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