Backyard Birding with Grandma

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.

Watch this beautiful video:

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Birdhouse No 5 Art Print

Gamboa, Consuelo

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Start planning your garden

The Wildlife Habitat Journal - Restoring and Exploring Wildlife Habitat in Your Own Backyard

by: Betsy S. Franz

Amazon Price: $9.97 (as of 12/07/2009)
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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.

“If you build it, they will come.”

Wildlife-Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden a Haven for Beneficial Insects, Amphibians and Birds

by: Rosemary Creeser

Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 12/07/2009)

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 12/07/2009)

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.

Give new life to cast-offs, and just make gardening more fun - recycle

Easy Garden Projects to Make, Build, and Grow: 200 Do-It-Yourself Ideas to Help You Grow Your Best Garden Ever

by: Editors of Yankee Magazine

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/07/2009)
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Want more butterflies and birds in the yard? Build a quick fruit feeder or a simple tray feeder

Release Date: 04/18/2006

Backyard Birds in the Spotlight

Backyard Birds 2009 Calendar

Amazon Price: $13.99 (as of 12/07/2009)

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)

by: Susan M. Smith

Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 12/07/2009)

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.

Birds of the Garden

Birds of the Garden Summer Art Print

24 in. x 36 in.

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Framed Mounted

NEW! Children's Guide to Birdwatching

RSPB Children's Guide to Birdwatching

by: David Chandler, Mike Unwin

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Useful, Easy to Read, Great Gift, Makes a Difference

101 Ways to Help Birds

by: Laura Erickson

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/07/2009)

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.

T-shirts

Men's Sleeveless Tee

Price: 15.99

Golf Shirt

Price: 17.99

To really enjoy the birds at the feeder that you are feeding, invest in a good bird book.

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Great Apparel with Birds on Amazon

Garden Birds -- 2 Sided Jumbo Cotton Canvas Tote Bag -- Wildlife Art Print Purse -- From Wild Cotton Features Northern Cardinal, Yellow Warbler, Baltimore Oriol, Tufted Titmouse, Blue Jay, Robin, Carolina Wren, Eastern Bluebird, Purple Martin, Chickadee, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Sedar Waxwing, American Goldfinch, Evening Gosbeak Sparrow

Birdwatching Hat Nature Bucket Hat

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Songbird Spectrum - Unisex Short-sleeve T-shirt - 100% Preshrunk Cotton - available in Small, Medium, Large, X-Large and XX-Large Featuring Red Winged Blackbird, Northern Cardinal, Baltimore Oriole, Goldfinch, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Purple Martin a wonderful assortment of birds

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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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Pink Flamingo Machine Embroidered Wildlife Bucket Hat Bird Cap

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Backyard birding and photography

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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

Bateman's Backyard Birds

by: Robert Bateman

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.

Amazon Price: (as of 12/07/2009)
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Everything You Need to Know About Birding and Backyard Bird Attraction

by: Alan Pistorius

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

Amazon Price: (as of 12/07/2009)
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Backyard Birding for Kids

by: Fran Lee

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.

Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 12/07/2009)
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Backyard Birding (Nature Companion Series)

by: Terence Lindsey, R.G. Tuener

Backyard Birding is part of a four-book series, The Nature Companions;

Amazon Price: (as of 12/07/2009)
List Price: $50.00

Attracting Butterflies & Hummingbirds to Your Backyard: Watch Your Garden Come Alive With Beauty on the Wing (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)

by: Sally Roth

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 12/07/2009)
List Price: $18.95

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 12/07/2009)

Magazines about Birding and an Amazing DVD

Check out the DVD "Hooked on Hummingbirds"

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

Amazon Price: $22.95 (as of 12/07/2009)
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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.

Amazon Price: $16.00 (as of 12/07/2009)
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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

Amazon Price: $24.00 (as of 12/07/2009)
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