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Bluebirds Add Pleasant Element To Your Home

Make your yard a haven for Eastern Bluebirds. Do this by building houses for them to nest in and planting the kinds of foods bluebirds like to eat.

Eastern bluebirds are much less aggressive than other birds. Starlings and sparrows sometimes take over natural spaces like hollow trees bluebirds normally would nest in. [...]

Plants for Birds

The following is a list of plants that can be placed in the yard to attract birds.

Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maacki) Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbrella) Firethorn (Pyracantha) Holly (Ilex spp.) Dogwood (Cornus florida) Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum) Redosier Dogwood (Cornus Sumac (Rhus spp.) Stolonifera) Mountain Ash (Sorbus spp.) Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) Gray Stemmed [...]

How to Attract Hummingbirds

Most every porch in the South has a red flower or a hummingbird feeder on it, but if yours is one of the few that doesn’t, maybe you should think of putting one up.

Hummingbirds are fun to watch and easy to attract using feeders or planting flowers in your yard, said Dr. [...]