Projects for the Birder's Garden - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0899093930 ISBN 13: 9780899093932

Publisher: Yankee Publishing Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Create your own private nature preserve with dozens of ingenious ideas to turn a typical backyard into a beautiful natural habitat for birds and other wildlife. Follow the step-by-step instructions in this book and your yard will quickly become an enticing playground breeding ground and feeding ground for colorful songbirds. Projects require only a few simple tools and supplies and most can be easily and inexpensively assembled using only scrap materials found around the house. Dimensions (H x W x L) : 0.9 x 7.3 x 8.6

About this title

Synopsis:

Experience the gratification of watching birds gobbie seeds and other treats from your homemade bird feeder. Look on with delight as a mother bird tends to her babies in the protective hideaway of a bird house you have lovingly constructed from a dried gourd. Create a sunflower plantation, a bird teepee, a tent-style twig feeder, a pedestal birdbath. Follow the step-by-step instructions in this book, and your garden will quickly become an enticing playground, breeding ground, and feeding ground for colourful song birds. Among the book's special features: Projects require only a few simple tools and supplies and most can be easily and inexpensively assembled using only scrap materials found around the house; Information-packed sidebars include tips for identifying the nests and eggs of songbirds and unusual facts and figures about birds and bird behaviour; Instructions show how to create baffles and barriers to keep squirrels, and other unwanted guests away from the birdseed

About the Author:

Fern Marshall Bradley, a lifelong organic gardener, is also an editor and writer based in eastern Pennsylvania. A former book editor for Rodale, Inc., Fern's editing credits include Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, Rodale's Garden Answers, and Gardening with Perennials. She has a master's degree in horticulture from Rutgers University and has managed a market garden on an organic farm in New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yankee Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0899093930
• ISBN 13: 9780899093932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Bradley Fern Marshall