Birds in Your Backyard: A Bird Lover's Guide to Creating a Garden Sanctuary

Birds in Your Backyard: A Bird Lover's Guide to Creating a Garden Sanctuary
ISBN-10
0762109971
ISBN-13
9780762109975
Category
Nature
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2009-02-05
Publisher
Readers Digest
Author
Robert Dolezal

Description

Turn your backyard into a blissful bird sanctuary-create an appealing habitat to attract birds and watch them thrive. This indispensable guide for bird enthusiasts is a comprehensive and richly illustrated volume-with over 600 full-color photos. Together with a little careful planning and planting you can turn your yard into a bird and butterfly oasis. It's several books in one: * An A-to-Z landscaping guide to identify over 75 flowers and plants * A field guide includes over 170 varieties of birds and butterflies with key information on: how to identify them by their markings, how they behave, and which feeder foods they like the best * A bird-watching guide to understand the basics of bird-watching and what equipment might be needed to observe or photograph birds Plus, a how-to guide filled with step-by-step instructions for easy-to-build projects. Learn how-to: * Plant your garden with bird-friendly trees, plants, hedges, ground cover, seed- producing flowers, and fruit-bearing shrubs and vines * Build and mount your own birdhouses, boxes, perches, and shelters * Identify the best plants for creating nesting sites; grow bird seed; and add a birdbath or pond Let Birds in Your Backyard reveal its secrets for creating an irresistible garden and welcoming landscape alive with birds and butterflies.

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