Bird Watching: Best Trees and Shrubs for the Bird Garden?, 1 by tabasco
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Subject: Best Trees and Shrubs for the Bird Garden?
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tabasco wrote: Hi, birdsters! I have been following the Bird Watching threads and getting excited about adding more 'bird friendly' trees and shrubs to my natural garden style back yard-- So far we have a nice dogwood (in the photo) and some ash, a few evergreens and crabapples and we would like to add more. It seems like the birds swoop in and eat up everything so fast, it's hard to keep berries around through the seasons.... I googled and found this list of Trees and Shrubs for the northeast region that I thought was pretty precise and was wondering if anyone had comments or other recommendations-- General Plant Guide to Attracting Birds in the Northeast from "The Helpful Gardener" website: Purple finches Cotoneaster, Ornamental grasses Cedar Waxwing Cotoneaster, Pyracantha, Mountain Ash, Junipers Robins Flowering Dogwood, Crabapples, healthy and unhealthy lawns Eastern Phoebe Serviceberry, Sumacs Downy Woodpecker Serviceberry, Dogwood, Mountain Ash, Virginia Creeper Ruby-throated Hummingbird Trumpet vine, Weigela, Columbine, Bee Balm, Quince, most flowering plants producing red or orange flowers Indigo Bunting Unruly lawns, Dandelions, Goldenrod, Thistle Nuthatch Pine, Spruce and Fir trees Chickadee Winterberry, Serviceberry, Viburnums, Bayberry, Junipers Pileated Woodpecker Serviceberry, Elderberry Rose-breasted Grosbeak Cherry, Dogwood, Virginia creeper, Elderberry, Mulberry Sparrow Ornamental grasses, Roses, Junipers Scarlet Tanager Pines, Serviceberry, Elderberry, Maples, Elms, Oaks Junco Grasses, Conifers, Cosmos, Zinnia Red-winged Blackbird Marsh grasses, open pastureland Gold Finch Thistles, Grasses, Echinacea, Rudbeckia Northern Flicker Elderberry, Blueberry, Dogwoods Grackle Oaks, Grasses, poorly maintained lawns Baltimore oriole Quince, Serviceberry, Maples, Elms, Oaks Cardinal Winterberry, Roses, Dogwood, Junipers Mockingbird Bayberry, Serviceberry, Elderberry, Sumac, Dogwood Titmouse Oaks, Serviceberry, Elderberry, Bayberry Bluebird Dogwood, Virginia creeper, Holly, Juniper, Sumac, Serviceberry Wren Bayberry |