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Hummingbirds, Nature\'s Kamaikazes: Information and tips to enjoying them: Part 2
We will miss their jeweled wings and aerial acrobatics. We were quite fortunate to have him available to answer these questions, and more. It seems that the hummingbirds are not paying guests, so if some sugar water will bring in hummingbirds, and they...
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Crafting With Pine Cones, Nature\'s Perfect Ornament!
Children love to collect and decorate pine cones. Stir with an old wooden spoon and dip the cone in the melted wax. Glitter spray and some ribbon makes an ornament that any child would be proud to hang on the tree.
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Wooden Birds: The Carving Art of Murray Springthorpe
Each and every detail was captured with tiny perfection. He grew up in the small, rural town ofand is surrounded by wooded areas and natural animal habitats. He cut an imposing figure, but had a mind that was equally as sharp and imposing.
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From Nature Back to Nature: Bird Feeders from Vines
Later that afternoon as I wound my way home, I came again to the grapevine. A gathering of birds was happily sitting on the wound grapevine, pecking at the peanut butter and swinging in the breeze, while another little group nipped at the apple core on...
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Hummers at your window - a great gift idea!
On July 21st, we were relaxing in our pool and saw our first hummer, feeding from the fuchsia. I bought a large hanging pot of Fuschia 'Blue Eyes' to further entice the little flying jewels and hung that on the same pole.
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Attracting and Keeping our Feathered Friends, the Songbirds
Hang onto a tree and watch your birds devour it!Approx 1/2 loaf of bread, or equivalent bread products such as donuts, plain cake, buns, rolls etc.*beef fat can also be used, of course, but is hard to find in my area.
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Making Your Own Bird Cakes, Rendering Fat for Suet
When it is firm, dump it out on wax paper and slice like bread. The fat cuts easier when it is hardened. As more stores go to precut meats, you are less likely to find a butcher in the back room.
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Recycling for Birds - Food for Thought
Here are a few other items you can turn into feeders:Pie pans may hang from a tree or hook and hold seed, suet or nesting material.Hanging wire baskets are good for fruit or suet and can be lined to accommodate seeds.Wire baskets and milk crates can be...
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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. Mr Barnes encourages using native plants and includes an extensive section on which plants attract individual species.
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Spotlight on Attracting and Feeding Wild Birds
For hummingbirds, make nectar by combining one part white sugar to 4 parts water. Or, you can provide platform feeders along with hanging feeders. You will need to heat the water so that it dissolves the sugar, but it's not necessary to boil the nectar.
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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
Put a half inch wood bit into your drill.Drill ten to fifteen holes into the trunk, about ½ inch deep.piece of masking or electrical tape placed ½ inch above the bottom of the drill bit will help you gaugSpace the holes fairly evenly around the trunk,...
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Hummingbirds, Nature\'s Kamikazes: Attracting and enjoying the Ruby-throat hummingbird: Part I
The drought that many of us are experiencing probably is not affecting the hummingbirds much at all. That is why they sometimes will refuse to visit nectar plants and prefer feeders.
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Minnie and the Thuja Seedlings
Yet, she was always forgiven when she would show us her trophy, such as a mole, a small mouse, a lizard or a rat - she even stood up to a snake!We had adopted a real hunter and soon I figured out why.
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Should Humans Eat Seeds? We\'re Not Birds, After All!
Obviously, seeds are what birds eat, and other critters too. Avocado seed diagram "Challenge accepted," I responded, as I love to eat a variety of seeds, and I didn't have a ready answer for her.
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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. Many seed-producing plants can be left standing to provide this much-needed nour
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Livestock Feeders
Premier1's six-panel, collapsible WirePanel Big Bale Feeder is designed for hornless sheep and goats. This, plus its close-to-the-ground manger, is designed to simulate natural grazing activity.
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National Tortoise Day Article: Proper Diet for Desert Tortoises
And since we know very little about what exactly a tortoise needs, there is no point at guessing and hoping we get something right by adding large quantities of unecessary and potentially harmful nutrients to the diet.
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Cats versus House Plants
I should mention here that Daves Garden has a wonderful tool called theTwo sided tape, or fly-paper, works on flat surfaces. There are a few scented products on the market,for one, but I found it had to be resprayed almost hourly to have much effect.
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Fleas on Pets and in the Garden- a Treatment Overview
The problems are with owners expectations- most expect an instant kill, which most products do not deliver.And most owners also expect to never see another flea on their pet again, which is simply unrealistic and cannot possibly happen if there is an...
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Catnip and Nightmares
Even now, it is still used by herbalists to relieve insomnia. I never knew that catnip was for cats. I woke up hearing its growl, and even though I was covered from head to toe with four quilts and safe in the depths of the feather bed, I yelled long...
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Catnip: Just for cats?
Catnip is a curious herb that is like a drug for cats. Cat in garden of catnip, and cat lounging afterwardsIn humans, this product along with perhaps other oils and chemicals in this plant are used for all sorts of things including pain killing, treating...
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Dairy Farmer\'s Journal: Dogs
I had no idea that dogs could just exist in that way. I felt bad for the dog, having no purpose in life.Farm dogs, no matter what their breed, are a breed apart. Sidney learned early that he didn't often get his way.To say that Molly was happy about having...
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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
This article discusses some of the slug and snail control products and the dangers of some of these products to our own pets. But some arsenical products taste good to dogs and if they eat enough they could get seriously poisoned.Additionally this product...
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Toxic Plants- What Does That Really Mean
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. What does it mean to say a plant is toxic?
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Frozen Bird Feeders
Mix all ingredients and smoosh them into your Bundt pan. Certain foods, like pumpkin seeds and dried oregano, can be used as medicine for your wintering birds. Whatever avian species you're trying to feed, Jenny Wrens or your prize flock of layers, these...
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Bug Poisons from a Veterinary Perspective
And finally muscle tremors, seizures, coma and death.The first few symptoms are pretty non-specific, but suggestive of organophosphate (OP) poisoning , but as each new symptom appears the diagnosis becomes a bit more clear.Still, dogs that come in with...
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