Liz
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This was a very helpful lesson, booth because I see that my garden already has many features for attracting birds:purple cornflower, purple aster, crab apple trees, pine trees, leaf mulch, stumps, honey suckle etc, but also has many gaps. I would like to plant sunflowers this year, find space for a native oak tree, a chokecherry and a willow, and particularly improve on the bird baths I have, none of which has many of the recommended features and placement.
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I live north of Boston, about 1/4 mile inland from the ocean; I am fortunate enough to have the view of the neighbor's lovely pond which hosts great egrets, grey herons, red-wing blackbirds, mallard ducks, and an occasional cormorant or green heron. I also have a large lawn, pine trees and several flower gardens abutting the pond. Although I have tried over the years to plant these gardens with native perennials, these don't always result in new birds although they do attract bees and butterflies. I would like to find plants that attract a wider variety of birds; in winter the bird feeder and garden are populated by blue jays, juncos, purple finches, nuthatches, chickadees, cardinals, mourning doves, goldfinches (in their early spring plumage)but summer visitors are not as varied, with Carolina wrens, redwing blackbirds and various raptors passing through. It could be that the native plants need to be repositioned to better attract the attention of birds, or I need to plant more. I look forward to learning what and how in this course.
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