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Hummingbirds, Nature\'s Kamaikazes: Information and tips to enjoying them: Part 2
It is still valuable information if you have an unknown hummingbird in your garden, many researchers are quite interested. Make sure that you have room for this plant to spread, and that you keep it in check.
California
El Segundo
Crafting With Pine Cones, Nature\'s Perfect Ornament!
Glitter spray and some ribbon makes an ornament that any child would be proud to hang on the tree. This will open up closed cones and remove insects and sap. You can dip the cone again to obtain a thicker coat of wax.
California
El Segundo
Wooden Birds: The Carving Art of Murray Springthorpe
My uncle left an unlikely legacy when he passed away a few years ago. To augment the birds, Uncle Murray would sometimes show the bird on a naked or flowering branch. Those ships are truly amazing works of art.
California
El Segundo
From Nature Back to Nature: Bird Feeders from Vines
Do you stuff the trimmings into a plastic bag and send them away with the rest of your trash? It was there on the mountain side that I learned much about nature, including the habits of small wild critters, and the wonder of hidden blossoms.
California
El Segundo
Hummers at your window - a great gift idea!
Then you simply unscrew the top, wash the top and bottom, refill and reassemble. An internet search for 'hummingbird window feeder' will turn up a whole list of possibilities for you.
California
El Segundo
Attracting and Keeping our Feathered Friends, the Songbirds
Add enough bread crumbs to absorb all liquid. I went to an expert.I paid a visit to Gary Phillips owner of Backyard Birds in Plymouth, Michigan. Feeders are available that have a tray attached below the feeder.)sunflower, safflower, suet mixtures, and...
California
El Segundo
Making Your Own Bird Cakes, Rendering Fat for Suet
The fat cuts easier when it is hardened. A bread pan or cup cake tin. The parts remaining in the pan should be thrown away. The birds in your neighborhood don't care if you spend $1 or $20 for the suet in the feeder.
California
El Segundo
Recycling for Birds - Food for Thought
With a little imagination, you can skip the landfill and create functional items and do some good for backyard wildlife.Technological advances in manufacturing recycled goods have provided consumers with new choices in building materials.
California
El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Gardening for the Birds
Gardeners love books, as the number of titles devoted to the subject attest. He also includes a page concerning Federal laws and regulations for regulating wildlife, although he prefers exclusion and pest-proofing to more extreme measures.Even though...
California
El Segundo
Spotlight on Attracting and Feeding Wild Birds
You will need to heat the water so that it dissolves the sugar, but it's not necessary to boil the nectar. If you don't have any living shrubs in your yard this fall (and it's too late to plant them), don't worry! In the meantime, you can take dry plants...
California
El Segundo
Recycle Your Christmas Tree! Make a Peanut Butter Feeder from a Section of its Trunk to Attract Birds to Your Garden
The feeder attracts all sorts of local songbirds: Downy Woodpeckers, Nuthatches, Tufted Titmouses, Chickadees, Carolina Wrens, even Juncos! At times, it is as crowded as the carousel at the county fair, spinning on its rope as birds land and take off...
California
El Segundo
Hummingbirds, Nature\'s Kamikazes: Attracting and enjoying the Ruby-throat hummingbird: Part I
For solid food, he suggests cultivating a healthy population of fruit flies. That is why they sometimes will refuse to visit nectar plants and prefer feeders. Books, websites, and lectures are devoted solely to their habitat, care, and migration patterns.
California
El Segundo
Minnie and the Thuja Seedlings
Like when she decided to play with my thuja seedlings what a disaster! She was a great mother and cared for her puppies, but something must have happened while she was pregnant because the other two died that same day.
California
El Segundo
Should Humans Eat Seeds? We\'re Not Birds, After All!
For instance, sprinkle a little ground almond meal or flax seed meal in next time you bake bread or muffins, use cornmeal or pulverized oatmeal or grated or shredded coconpicture credits: seed thumbnail, Xandert at morguefiles.com.
California
El Segundo
This is for the Birds!
My birdseed bill last winter was right around $100. This spring, I'll spend some of that seed money to add even more to the winter smorgasbord! Something that will last longer than a day or two, and give me enjoyment all summer long.
California
El Segundo
Livestock Feeders
This, plus its close-to-the-ground manger, is designed to simulate natural grazing activity. Larger feeders must be designed so foals and calves can't get inside of them. Like Quick Feed automatic feeders, it holds 50 pounds of concentrates, feeds up...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
National Tortoise Day Article: Proper Diet for Desert Tortoises
So leaving the decision about always what to eat up to your pet tortoise does not mean they will make good choices. For those trying to raise desert tortoises in climates that require you to keep them indoors much of the year, where you may run out of...
California
El Segundo
Cats versus House Plants
There is nothing worse smelling than moldy orange peel, and if there are a bunch of fruit flies hanging around the plants, well, they attract kitty back to the very plant you are trying to protect.
California
El Segundo
Fleas on Pets and in the Garden- a Treatment Overview
There is some degree of resistance in many flea populations to all these products, however, and most of the products will eliminate most other insect life as wellIf one is overwhelmed with outdoor fleas, there are numerous products on the market for this...
California
El Segundo
Catnip and Nightmares
She told me to use that end as a weapon and fight my own monsters. Most of the time in her haste she didn't bother with a light, of course it was not as dark downstairs in her bedroom as it was upstairs in mine, but she had to wait till she got to the...
California
El Segundo
Catnip: Just for cats?
For more on Catnip, see these sites:http://www.catsinternational.org/articles/fun_for_cats/catnip_fun_or_dangerous.htmlhttp://landscaping.about.com/od/herbplants/p/catmint_plants.htmhttp://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/83/8331catnip.htmlhttp://www.sfp.forprod.vt.edu/factsheets/catnip.pdfhttp://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/med-aro/factsheets/CATNIP.html
California
El Segundo
Dairy Farmer\'s Journal: Dogs
The calcium that had been going to growth switched direction and went to heal the break leaving him forever with a stick leg. Stan would send the dogs out to get the cows, and she would stop about half way and bark directions at the other two.
California
El Segundo
Tortoises in the Garden
For much of my gardening life I have had at least one tortoise in my garden, and as much as five at one time.There are hundreds of kinds of tortoises and even more kinds of turtles, but my experiences have been limited to but a few.I have found they make...
California
El Segundo
Snail and slug control from a veterinary perspective
In a previous article I discussed some of the possible toxic ramifications of trying to eradicate rodents from ones yard, at least to one's pets.Not all of us have rodent problems, but it is clear the toxins sold to get rid of those pests are extremely...
California
El Segundo
Toxic Plants- What Does That Really Mean
How toxic does a toxic plant have to be to be toxic or non-toxic? That may seem like an odd question, but is one that has bothered me for years, and particularly as I read another senseless, long list of toxic plants on the internet.
California
El Segundo
Frozen Bird Feeders
Certain foods, like pumpkin seeds and dried oregano, can be used as medicine for your wintering birds. Other healthful items, like bits of banana and Rugosa rose hips, are ingredients that any bird would enjoy eating.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Bug Poisons from a Veterinary Perspective
This is one of most toxic of the OrganophosphatesFortunately Organophosphates are used far less frequently, and the super toxic ones are not as commonly used anymore (except for disolfoton).Malathion is still used a lot and this was the product dumped...
California
El Segundo