Birds Of The Garden

Gardening involves more than trees, plants and vegetables. A garden attracts nature's gifts of bees, butterflies and birds. These little gifts provide songs, beauty, color and insect control in many cases. My garden is not complete without them whether autumn, summer, spring or winter. They add enjoyment at all times of the year.

Wow! How ever did you get all those beautiful pictures!?

Awesome banner Leon! Amazing what you put together with all those birds.

What an adorable banner Leon!!

What great pictures too!

Thanks everyone! (I guess they're just a part of me out here in the heartland.)

Birds, like other garden dwellers add character and life to our environment and property. These are some of the pictures I used to help make this banner collage. Whether in trees, hedges, shrubs or flower beds they add purpose, meaning and happiness to our lives.

Truly such beautiful shots!

Btw, did you hang that orange to attract birds, or was it to attract some other animal?

I am fascinated by all those colourful birds you have in the USA

Gorgeous banner, Leon

KFredenburg said:Truly such beautiful shots!Btw, did you hang that orange to attract birds, or was it to attract some other animal?

We hang an orange each day strictly for the Baltimore Orioles. They love them and we feed them nectar from a container also. Photo attached.
Baltimore Oriole feeding.

What a gorgeous bird! I've never heard of them either!

Wow! Such great shots Leon!

Excellent banner Leon!

What a refreshing banner, and of course the knowledge bonus it brings. When I read "Baltimore Orioles" (and I'm not a sports fan) I thought, isn't that a baseball team's name? That's just a little bit of coincidental birdbrain trivia.

leon, we have orioles in southern california, too. however, they're not as colorful as the ones you photographed. they're yellow, black with a touch of white, and not the brighter orange-yellow on the plumage.

awesome pictures.

four of the birds, i recognize and researched, are dull compared to yours wherever you live? are you in the mid-west?

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Leon,

This has to be one of the best banners. My husband and I love birds and feed them everyday (feeders and on the ground) of the year. We also have 6 hummingbird feeders that we put out during hummingbird season. We have a peanut feeder, 2 suet feeders, a mixed seed feeder, filled thistle sock that get changed to a new one every week or more if needed, a feeder that we call "the sunflower feeder" (mostly sunflower, but has more goodies). In the late winter/early spring, I spread the Wild Birds Unlimited hot pepper Bark Butter on our redbud tree.

We have 3 Brome Squirrel Buster feeders

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and use hot pepper suet cakes in the suet feeders because of the squirrels.

We have been feeding the birds everyday (in feeders and on the ground), since Dec. 2000. The Eastern Cottontail rabbits and more than welcome to enjoy the mixed seeds I put on the ground, but the squirrels, not so much. We get a bunch of them every day of the year.

We also hang a birdhouse out under our Magnolia tree. We get a family of chickadees and then a family of house wrens. I clean it up in the fall and leave it out for the birds, in case some want to take shelter in it from the cold days and months.

The song birds, hummingbirds, butterflies and bees are wonderful and a joy to have around. We love seeing all the different birds here each season. Spring and summer brings lots of juvenile birds coming with parents and/or by themselves to feed. So sweet with their begging calls and their flapping of the wings begging for food to the parents.

Wonderful overall and I love it. Thank you for posting all your beautiful and wonderful pics.

What a delightful image to wake up to this morning!!! Wow!

Thank you Leon for your creativity, and for sharing your garden with us. Truly a special place.

Oh my goodness what a beautiful sight!!! I have never seen such beautiful colors on wild birds, Thanks for sharing your wonderful pictures...I am in awe and very jealous that this is the norm for you!!! I absolutely love your banner!!!

As a long time bird lover, this banner really caught my attention, what a beautiful collage of so many colorful birds.!

Thank you everyone for taking the time to leave your wonderful comments, thumbs and acorns! Each of you are a part of what I call the "back bone" of these garden adventures and are a very valuable resource of information, encouragement and creative energy. Thank you so much~ specifically to these folks!

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Aww, ty.