Many thanks for your sage advice on moving from lawn to a more natural setting. Lovely pics! Working on adding a near the ground birdbath/frog pond with a little moving water on a small waterfall built of rocks. Paying attention to how to most easily care for it and keeping it safe and inviting to the birds.
Another excellent piece. I’d be interested in a future issue about how to attract pileated woodpeckers. My yard gets plenty of red bellied and downy woods but I only see pileated woodpeckers once every three or four years.
We have a good number of Pileateds in the area but the only two ways that I know to get them to come reasonably often is a peanut feeder that they can hang onto, but mostly to have a dead and rotten tree heaving with insect larvae below the bark. They have quite extensive territories and travel around a lot. Red-bellieds on the other hand are not common, in fact ten years ago they were absent this far north but a few have been creeping in as the winters warm.
Many thanks for your sage advice on moving from lawn to a more natural setting. Lovely pics! Working on adding a near the ground birdbath/frog pond with a little moving water on a small waterfall built of rocks. Paying attention to how to most easily care for it and keeping it safe and inviting to the birds.
The hummingbird is feeding from Cuphea hybrid in a pot on the deck; they enjoy feeding from Lobelia cardinalis elsewhere in the garden. Mrs Gardener
Another excellent piece. I’d be interested in a future issue about how to attract pileated woodpeckers. My yard gets plenty of red bellied and downy woods but I only see pileated woodpeckers once every three or four years.
We have a good number of Pileateds in the area but the only two ways that I know to get them to come reasonably often is a peanut feeder that they can hang onto, but mostly to have a dead and rotten tree heaving with insect larvae below the bark. They have quite extensive territories and travel around a lot. Red-bellieds on the other hand are not common, in fact ten years ago they were absent this far north but a few have been creeping in as the winters warm.