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Hummingbirds, Nature\'s Kamaikazes: Information and tips to enjoying them: Part 2
These tiny travelers leave their nesting grounds here in the USA and Canada, and head for the tropics of Central America every fall, spending the winter where nectar and insects are plentiful, only to make the 600 mile non-stop flight again each spring.So...
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Crafting With Pine Cones, Nature\'s Perfect Ornament!
You'll find them worked into wreaths and garlands, in a centerpiece, potpourri, hanging as an ornament on the tree or scented and placed in a basket. Spray a cone white, add wings and a round wooden head and an angel appears.
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Wooden Birds: The Carving Art of Murray Springthorpe
Each and every detail was captured with tiny perfection. You see, Uncle Murray was 6' 6” – and as big and muscular as he was tall. He worked on several ships, but they took so long to complete, and were so large he found that they were difficult to...
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From Nature Back to Nature: Bird Feeders from Vines
And what a treasure I found one day when I accidentally got all entangled in a grapevine. I am sure you do if you live with wild grapevines, wisteria or honeysuckle. Your kids and your fine feathered flying friends are going to love it, and it will last...
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Hummers at your window - a great gift idea!
After that there were several different individuals, probably 3 or 4, frequenting both the feeders and the flowers. Fuschia is a favorite nectar plant of hummingbirds. Many of them had never seen a hummer at all, never mind up close and personal.
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Attracting and Keeping our Feathered Friends, the Songbirds
I'll be discussing how to attract them to your yard and more importantly keeping them coming back Mix flour, cornmeal and sugar and stir in. You can also buy bird baths with built in heating coils.
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Making Your Own Bird Cakes, Rendering Fat for Suet
The parts remaining in the pan should be thrown away. The fat cuts easier when it is hardened. The hardest part of rendering may be finding the fat. Birdie Bon Appetit! A bread pan or cup cake tin.
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Recycling for Birds - Food for Thought
After your sticky substance coats the cone, roll it in birdseed of your choice. Now you're ready for the hanging material. Washing out my plastic zippered bags and rinsing aluminum foil to reuse is indeed ingrained in my daily living.
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Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Gardening for the Birds
Kentucky's diversity of climate, makes it the perfect example for this publication. He also advises folks not to be neat freaks when it comes to butterfly habitat. As he points out, far more people are in urban or suburban areas than live at rural addresses.He...
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Spotlight on Attracting and Feeding Wild Birds
We hope you'll enjoy reading about what they find interesting or intriguing. Or, you can provide platform feeders along with hanging feeders. Fruit is best nailed to a tree or platform feeder (or attached to a special fruit feeder) to make it easy for...
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Recycle Your Christmas Tree! Make a Peanut Butter Feeder from a Section of its Trunk to Attract Birds to Your Garden
For those who had a cut tree for the holidays, it's time to haul it to the curb. Every winter, we hang it from a shepherd's hook at the edge of our patio. The birds loved sheltering in it all winter, but next summer we did not love running over those...
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Hummingbirds, Nature\'s Kamikazes: Attracting and enjoying the Ruby-throat hummingbird: Part I
It seems that the birds love them. This simple recipe for home made hummingbird nectar is all that you need.Bill reccomends native plants instead of the popular and colorful hybrid selections though.
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Minnie and the Thuja Seedlings
Both my husband and I watched her carry one puppy over the field and then dig a hole; she probably burried the puppy, because she came back without it. But when she tries to mess with my plants, I can get very upset and forget how much I love her.
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Should Humans Eat Seeds? We\'re Not Birds, After All!
Some people have trouble with thehigh fiber content of dry beans or the crunchy hulls of flax seeds, sesame seeds or carp from dieters. (It helps me to think of mammals: sperm from the father, placenta from theout and form new plants instantly, which...
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This is for the Birds!
I started looking around my yard to see what the critters eat when the feeder is empty, and I discovered a treasure trove of goodies. When cold weather sets in, bird-watching from my kitchen window is a lively pastime.
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Livestock Feeders
Are the units easily cleaned? A simple, natural way to feed large, stalled animals is the Noble Panels and Gates' large, sturdy corner feeder manufactured of seamless molded poly- urethane.
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National Tortoise Day Article: Proper Diet for Desert Tortoises
Most tortoise diets contain lots of vitamin C anyway, so there is no reason whatsoever to add more. Right is a bladder stone I took out of Desert Tortoise that may have gotten too dehydrated at one time (though more likely due to improper diet).These...
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Cats versus House Plants
If you have a plant table and kitty is known to shove your plants aside to get more comfortable in the sun shining through the window, strategically place these and kitty will avoid these areas.
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Fleas on Pets and in the Garden- a Treatment Overview
You would think it really should be the other way around.This product was the first out that contained topical product that actually proved SAFE and EFFECTIVE killing fleas rapidly.
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Catnip and Nightmares
It keeps the catnip contained, and my cats and I are pretty happy with the plan. The excitement is caused by an oil the plants secrete to ward off insects that otherwise would eat the leaves.
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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
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Dairy Farmer\'s Journal: Dogs
I felt bad for the dog, having no purpose in life.Farm dogs, no matter what their breed, are a breed apart. Stan began training her quite early and she seemed a quick study. He is fond of reminding us with looks and sighs that he is the good dog, never...
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Tortoises in the Garden
These changes are relatively permament; on right is a bizzare Box Turtle raised on a severely deficient diet, also without sunlight- now this mature adult has a shell only half the size it should be
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Snail and slug control from a veterinary perspective
But some arsenical products taste good to dogs and if they eat enough they could get seriously poisoned.Additionally this product also can build up in the system and cause chronic toxicities (unlike most pesticides which are only dangerous immediately...
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Toxic Plants- What Does That Really Mean
What does it mean to say a plant is toxic? How toxic does a toxic plant have to be to be toxic or non-toxic? And of course it is directed toward pets which, as a veterinarian, I find particularly useful.However, it still is woefully lacking of practical...
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Frozen Bird Feeders
Who needs TV when you have birds around? Certain foods, like pumpkin seeds and dried oregano, can be used as medicine for your wintering birds. Each of us has our own livestock chores, of course, but you can make special treats to please the many birds...
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Bug Poisons from a Veterinary Perspective
For some reason it is not used much in over the counter products, so there may be some effectiveness issue, but toxicity does not appear to be a big problem.is a 'natural' Lily extract product that does have some very irritating properties when contacting...
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