lmhall2000
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We are off to a good start with four birdfeeders...we've been here a month and we're in a woodsy area. Our lot was completely cleared of all it's trees but our back neighbor has atleast 10 big ones and two are diseased so we see lots of woodpeckers and nuthatches cleaning it out...so far we've seen
Cardinal, Blue Jay, White-breasted nuthatch (thanks to the ID from you guys!), red-bellied woodpecker, house finch, hummingbirds, grackles? or some type of blackbird, mourning doves (closest we could ID...looks like one and has reddish feet), as far as I know we haven't seen any finches (we put thistle out). The thrill we've had is seeing one painted bunting (but it wasn't in our back yard...actually on the side of a street we take walks on...deep in honeysuckle brush...we all thought it was an exotic bird that had escaped...then found it in one of our books...sooo cool! There's also another brilliant blue bird flying around here..it's solid blue and is a striking color...it looked like a mountain bluebird but it says it doesn't live here...then I found a mention of an indigo bunting...I think that's what it was.)
Our backyard is not deep but is wide...it's probably about 30 feet deep and 120 feet wide. The only thing I've planted so far is confederate jasmine near our deck. I have planting areas all along the perimeter of the house and the neighbor behind us has a cedar fence running the width of our lot and I've saved about 5-6 feet there to plant trees/shrubs/etc.. Any suggestions for specific plantings that will widen my variety of wildlife? My grandmother is preparing cuttings of an angel trumpet vine and a double flowering kerria...both are climbing type plants and the hummingbirds love the trumpet plant. I'm just at a loss for good perching plants for some of these birds. I've got a japanese maple I'm moving from the front yard to the back and that's where my ideas end. Thanks for any ideas!!!
Tara
Cardinal, Blue Jay, White-breasted nuthatch (thanks to the ID from you guys!), red-bellied woodpecker, house finch, hummingbirds, grackles? or some type of blackbird, mourning doves (closest we could ID...looks like one and has reddish feet), as far as I know we haven't seen any finches (we put thistle out). The thrill we've had is seeing one painted bunting (but it wasn't in our back yard...actually on the side of a street we take walks on...deep in honeysuckle brush...we all thought it was an exotic bird that had escaped...then found it in one of our books...sooo cool! There's also another brilliant blue bird flying around here..it's solid blue and is a striking color...it looked like a mountain bluebird but it says it doesn't live here...then I found a mention of an indigo bunting...I think that's what it was.)
Our backyard is not deep but is wide...it's probably about 30 feet deep and 120 feet wide. The only thing I've planted so far is confederate jasmine near our deck. I have planting areas all along the perimeter of the house and the neighbor behind us has a cedar fence running the width of our lot and I've saved about 5-6 feet there to plant trees/shrubs/etc.. Any suggestions for specific plantings that will widen my variety of wildlife? My grandmother is preparing cuttings of an angel trumpet vine and a double flowering kerria...both are climbing type plants and the hummingbirds love the trumpet plant. I'm just at a loss for good perching plants for some of these birds. I've got a japanese maple I'm moving from the front yard to the back and that's where my ideas end. Thanks for any ideas!!!
Tara
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