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Attracting Birds to Your Backyard: 536 Ways to Turn Your Yard and Garden Into a Haven For Your Birds
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Product Description
Enjoy your home and garden as never before when you have a yard that's filled with colorful birds and bird songs as well as flowers. This A-to-Z guide includes: Terrific tips and plans for building bird feeders, birdbaths, and birdhouses. Recipes for making bird food that is sure to be a hit with your feathered friends--including Chickadee Doughnut Delights and Easy Bird Treat Mini-Muffins. The 25 best plants to grow to attract birds to your yard--including columbine and honeysuckle, hummingbird favorites. How to identify and attract goldfinches, chickadees, cardinals, and more than 50 other favorite birds to your yard. Plus, you'll learn what their songs and antics really mean. With Attracting Birds to Your Backyard , you are on your way to creating your own backyard bird sancturay today!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #566784 in Books
- Published on: 1998-10-28
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"A must for anyone interested in birds. I love it."--Jim Brett, curator emeritus of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
"An entertaining approach to attracting and learning about birds. The alphabetical approach--from acorns to zinnias--and short entries make it a perfect book to pick up and browse at any time."--Don and Lillian Stokes, hosts of PBS's Birdwatch with Don and Lillian Stokes and authors of Stokes Field Guides to Birds
"Attracting Birds to Your Backyard provides all the essential techniques and information for success in feeding, housing, and gardening for birds. Sally Roth has done a great service to backyard bird watchers."--Bill Thompson III, editor of Bird Watcher's Digest and author of Birdwatching for Dummies
From the Back Cover
Discover the pleasures of watching beautiful songbirds like goldfinches and cardinals with Attracting Birds to Your Backyard. You'll be delighted at how easy and fun it is to attract birds to your yard!
Here is what reviewers say about Attracting Birds to Your Backyard:
"Our newest favorite book about attracting birds to the yard and garden. Sally Roth's clear, down-to-earth writing expresses her hands-on involvement and her passion."--Sharon Dunn and Michael Dunn, owners of Duncraft
"A must for anyone interested in birds. I love it."--Jim Brett, curator emeritus of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
"An entertaining approach to attracting and learning about birds. The alphabetical approach -- from acorns to zinnias -- and short entries make it a perfect book to pick up and browse at any time." --Don and Lillian Stokes, hosts of PBS's Birdwatch with Don and Lillian Stokes and authors of Stokes Field Guides to Birds
"Attracting Birds to Your Backyard provides all the essential techniques and information for success in feeding, housing, and gardening for birds. Sally Roth has done a great service to backyard bird watchers."--Bill Thompson III, editor of Bird Watcher's Digest and author of Bird Watching for Dummies
About the Author
Customer Reviews
The BEST Bird Book
I have lots of books on methods to attract birds to the yard. This is the best and well worth the purchase. In a relaxed format, complete with detailed illustrations Sally Roth shows you how to set up your garden or yard to bring in the birds and get them to stay a while and come back. She covers topics that you'd expect. For example, what types of trees, flowers or plants are useful to attract birds because of their fruit, seed, nectar, bedding material, etc.
She describes bird behaviour from eating, fighting, mating, etc., all with an aim on how to set up the yard/garden to meet their needs.
She describes setting up birdbaths, how to use binoculars, bird feeders, and bird houses. Their are recipies for the do-it-yourselfer and instructions on how to help baby birds.
I found the most useful info to be the directions on how to attract specific birds. I have implemented many of the suggestions with great success and refer to the book often. My favourite suggestion was about putting bits of string and yarn out for nesting birds. The biggest thrill I got was when Orioles were coming for the string to build their nest. Thanks Sally!!!
The book has so much more than what I've mentioned - there are about 285 pages of hints, tips and tricks. Don't waste time on other books - this is the BEST and most detailed book.
Happy Bird Watching Everyone.
Attracting Birds Made Simple
This colorful book is full of many ideas for attracting birds and keeping them interested in your backyard. There are many books on this subject, but this book is exceptional.
Sally Roth's explanations of how to go about attracting feathered friends are easy to understand and further made easy by the many illustrations.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in birds and their unique habits.
Couldn't be better--absolutely wonderful!!!
This book is loaded with practical info. about the most prevalent back-yard birds, including the type of food they like, nesting preferences etc., as well as key elements of their behavior. There are many wonderful suggestions for attracting birds and detailed instructions for implementing them, including wonderful & fun recipes. This is what the Audabon Backyard Bird Garden book should have been but isn't--so buy this one instead--useful, fun to read as well as to implement, wonderfully organized, and visually very attractive--a real winner!!!
