Attracting Backyard Birds

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WHAT COULD BE MORE PEACEFUL than the sights and sounds of birds fluttering about, their sweet songs echoing through the air? Tempt a variety of neighborhood species into your yard and provide yourself with hours of bird-watching pleasure by building any of more than 20 feeders, birdhouses, and birdbaths. Attract a family of purple martins with the multi-holed Mardn's House. Invite robins to call with an easy-to-make nesting shelf. Turn an old tree stump into a natural-looking birdbath. This all-color manual, packed with more than 100 full-color photographs, contains all the information necessary for creadng a bird sanctuary—constructional plans and instrtic-tions, seed and nesting preferences, landscape design ideas and dps, and more. The rewards of a bird-friendly yard are truly never ending—for you, for your feathered visitors, and for the environ men L
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Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
New York
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1 VERYONE ENJOYS WATCHING
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NATURE
WHAT COULD BE MORE PEACEFUL than the sights and sounds of birds fluttering about, their sweet songs echoing through the air? Tempt a variety of neighborhood species into your yard and provide yourself with hours of bird-watching pleasure by building any of more than 20 feeders, birdhouses, and birdbaths. Attract a family of purple martins with the multi-holed Mardn's House. Invite robins to call with an easy-to-make nesting shelf. Turn an old tree stump into a natural-looking birdbath. This all-color manual, packed with more than 100 full-color photographs, contains all the information necessary for creadng a bird sanctuary—constructional plans and instrtic-tions, seed and nesting preferences, landscape design ideas and dps, and more. The rewards of a bird-friendly yard are truly never ending—for you, for your feathered visitors, and for the environ men L
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Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
New York
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1 VERYONE ENJOYS WATCHING
birds. Their graceful move-J merits, colorful plumage, and captivating songs charm us with their natural beauty, and allow us to connect with the world at its simplest and purest level. Watching them in our own backyard enables us to bring a sense of peace into our lives, to escape from the harried and hectic pace of the modern world into a refuge of tranquility. Enjoy the delights of the wide variety of birds that share your natural habitat by converting your backyard into a playground for feathered friends.
Build feeding stations, birdhouses, and birdbaths—there are more than 20 projects to choose from. Each includes complete materials lists, and illustrated plans and instructions. Try Will's doughnut feeder, a Tahiti getaway birdhouse that will thrill a Carolina wren, a colorful sun-and-moon-faced house for nuthatches, or a dugout-log birdbath. A handy chart provides the dimensional nesting requirements for a variety of species so that the birdhouse projects can be made and properly installed to accommodate and attract specific birds, including owls, woodpeckers, swallows, martins, wrens, finches, bluebirds, and others.
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Find out what kinds of food various species prefer. Make pinecone feeders and suet cakes, and uncover die all-important secrets of keeping away cats, squirrels, raccoons, snakes, and other uninvited guests. Alternatives to chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and fungicides are also included to keep birds healthy.
Learn the best way to landscape. Survey the existing features of your yard and enhance them to provide sources of food and shelter for birds. Adding trees, shrubs, and other plants that produce seeds, fruit, and nectar would be a good idea, as would the creation of a brush pile to encourage ground-nesting birds.
A bird sanctuary in your yard is an aesthetic delight that will provide you with infinite hours of pleasure, and it's a great way to improve the environment—naturally.
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