Synopses & Reviews
Attracting Birds to Your Backyard Discover the pleasures of watching beautiful songbirds like goldfinches and cardinals with Attracting Birds to Your Backyard. You'll be delighted at how easy and fun it is to attract birds to your yard!
Here is what reviewers say about Attracting Birds to Your Backyard:
"Our newest favorite book about attracting birds to the yard and garden. Sally Roth's clear, down-to-earth writing expresses her hands-on involvement and her passion."--Sharon Dunn and Michael Dunn, owners of Duncraft
"A must for anyone interested in birds. I love it."--Jim Brett, curator emeritus of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
"An entertaining approach to attracting and learning about birds. The alphabetical approach -- from acorns to zinnias -- and short entries make it a perfect book to pick up and browse at any time." --Don and Lillian Stokes, hosts of PBS's Birdwatch with Don and Lillian Stokes and authors of Stokes Field Guides to Birds
"Attracting Birds to Your Backyard provides all the essential techniques and information for success in feeding, housing, and gardening for birds. Sally Roth has done a great service to backyard bird watchers."--Bill Thompson III, editor of Bird Watcher's Digest and author of Bird Watching for Dummies
Synopsis
Transform your backyard into birdland with this A-to-Z compendium of useful information and tips. Best-selling author Sally Roth covers everything you need to know, from migration patterns and feeding to territorial fights and water gardens. Kids and adults will find fascinating lore throughout and be inspired to try one of the many projects right away.
-- Learn how to identify more than 50 varieties of birds and understand their behavior and songs
-- Learn what to do when you find a baby bird that's fallen from its nest
-- Tips and plans for building all sorts of feeders, nesting boxes, and birdbaths. Create your own bird cafe!
-- Recipes for custom blends of birdseed plus special treats like Chickadee Doughnut Delights and Christmas trees for birds
-- Discover why birds love yards with moss
-- Find out what you need to plant a birdseed garden and discover the 25 best plants for birds
-- Plans for bird-friendly water gardens, flower gardens, and hummingbird gardens
Synopsis
Enjoy your home and garden as never before when you have a yard that's filled with colorful birds and bird songs as well as flowers. This A-to-Z guide includes:
Terrific tips and plans for building bird feeders, birdbaths, and birdhouses.
Recipes for making bird food that is sure to be a hit with your feathered friends--including Chickadee Doughnut Delights and Easy Bird Treat Mini-Muffins.
The 25 best plants to grow to attract birds to your yard--including columbine and honeysuckle, hummingbird favorites.
How to identify and attract goldfinches, chickadees, cardinals, and more than 50 other favorite birds to your yard. Plus, you'll learn what their songs and antics really mean.
With Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, you are on your way to creating your own backyard bird sancturay today!
Synopsis
Anyone can create a beautiful and colorful backyard that will attract many different species of birds. This comprehensive, A-to-Z guide will help serious and casual gardeners alike choose the specific plants, flowers, shrubs, and trees for attracting some of the best-loved backyard birds, including bluebirds, warblers, goldfinches, and cardinals. Readers will discover top plants for birds, profiles of more than fifty common backyard birds, special bird feeding and planting tips to attract specific birds, and other features making this book invaluable to gardeners and bird lovers alike!
Synopsis
Rounding out the series that includes Identifying and Feeding Birds and Hummingbirds and Butterflies, Bird Homes and Habitats helps homeowners enhance their backyards even more with advice on how to provide shelter and nests for birds.
Synopsis
Two of the best-known names in birdingandmdash;Peterson and
Bird Watcherandrsquo;s Digestandmdash;team up to provide reliable, expert advice on how to attract the birds you want into your yard.
Which birds use nest boxes? Whatandrsquo;s required to maintain a birdhouse? What kind of habitat will attract which birds? What does it take to be a bluebird trail operator? What does it mean if baby birds or eggs disappear from their nest?
Bill Thompson III answers all of these questions and more, helping readers to create yards and gardens where birds will make their homes and raise their young.
Itandrsquo;s easy enough to hang a birdfeeder. But there are plenty of other things that can attract birds to a landscapeandmdash;and, in fact, birds need four essentials: food, water, shelter, and a place to nest. The more of these elements a yard has, the more attractive it is to birds.
A lavishly illustrated chapter provides ideas and inspiration for creating bird havens by profiling andldquo;Birdy Backyard All-Stars,andrdquo; fifteen homeowners from around the country who have actively worked to create bird-friendly habitats.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-292) and index.
About the Author
Sally Roth is a lifelong naturalist and gardener, is the author of
Natural Landscaping and
Taylor's Guide to Ornamental Grasses. She is a contributing editor of
Fine Gardening magazine and writes a weekly column about nature for several Indiana newspapers. She frequently lectures and leads workshops on natural history, gardening, and native plants.