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Bird Friendly Gardens: Attracting friendly faces

Planting for habitat invites a variety of birds to the garden, and they are a welcome addition!
Not only will their individual personalities charm you, most will earn their room and board by helping to control insects.  

A diversity of plants - especially native species - offer birds food, shelter, and protected nesting sites and material. Native plants also provide hosts for high-protein soft bodied insects essential for baby birds to get a strong start.  Flowering plants offer up pollen and nectar not only to bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, but also the feisty little ruby-throated hummingbird, the only hummingbird east of the Mississippi.   Berries that become available in late summer/early fall have
the high fat content energy that migrators need for their journey, while berries low in fat last longer to provide later fall/winter emergency supplies. 

Provide plant diversity and birds will happily make themselves at home in your garden all year long.  
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