Lots of American Goldfinch here...thistle seed isn’t cheap but that’s all the little buggers seem to want to eat(other than sunflower seeds...when nothing else is available).
“Difficulty: Easy”
Unless you have deer running the neighborhood...
;-)
Identify the birds in your area.
BIRD GUIDES Online
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=1
By, Golly! Everything they’re telling you to grow for wildlife is already a NATIVE...that would still be here in abundance if it weren’t for McMansions and societal progress!
Go figger. :)
I generally have a nice plot of sunflowers in my garden...we compete (a losing battle :)) with the birds for the seeds...I always plant more than what we need of the popular plants, like sunflowers and corn...raccoons have to eat to you know...
I generally have a nice plot of sunflowers in my garden...we compete (a losing battle :)) with the birds for the seeds...I always plant more than what we need of the popular plants, like sunflowers and corn...raccoons have to eat also you know...
Then eat the fat birds.
Just kidding folks. I am a real animal lover. There was a big overweight pesky housefly buzzing around this a.m. I left the windows open so it could fly away...which it did.
I am not an Obama.
I plant several varites of sunflower every year. I also throw a few milo seeds into pots. Birds love to sit on the stems and eat the seeds.
P.S.
Greg Craig is a mango tree lawer.
We grow sunflowers in N. MN at my friend’s lakeshore place for no other reason than to watch the deer walking the shoreline and getting a free meal....
And, once in a while, we get a hungry bear....
Hey Cindy,....
Thanks for this thread.
bttt!
Easy. Just put it in the feeder.
No care, no water, and no work.
My back lawn is sprouting corn, sunflower, rye, barley, and weird grasses.
Just had a phone call to inform me the dung beetles in Panama also have some sort of complaint. They are also going to hire Greg Craig.