Wildlife Gardening: Finally!, 1 by Equilibrium

Equilibrium wrote:
My two bird baths are all nice and scrubbed out and re-filled with water as of a few minutes ago. For some reason a lot of leaves have been accumulating in them. I do stick mosquito dunks in them.

Nope, I'm doing 1 C sugar to 3 C water. That's what the speaker at the Audubon Society recommended a few years ago. I have no idea if that's a regional thing or if that was what the ratio was we were supposed to use when they were migrating or what. It's been too long. I can switch to 1:4.

That nice little amber hummingbird feeder fell off the window. I knew that thing was too heavy for that window. I'll go to the wild bird store and see if I can buy myself another light weight suction cup hummer feeder like what heyitsmejudy described. Maybe I can get there sometime this weekend. I'd really like one up close to where I do the dishes.

I've got lots of water around here which is why I have so many dragonflies and damselflies and herps of all kinds to the extent I have to water my window wells when watering plants just in case something gets down there that I miss rescuing. I have natural ponds which are left alone as well as several pre-forms that are for specific purposes. One preform is for tads in the spring that are transferred from vernal ponds that will dry up, one is for odonata, and one is sort of sacrificial to keep the interest of the raccoons in the area. I toss rusty crayfish and earthworms in that one for the raccoons and it does help a lot in that I was able to take down the fido shock fence from around the pre-form that has my tads in it. I have another pre-form that needs to be set back up but it is still not functional right now because I've been working in that area and didn't want to go in the drink while planting. I hate taking a step backwards and forgetting there's water behind me.

For the most part, I almost exclusively use plants that are indigenous to my area but I've been planting for moths and do have quite a few exotics in tight around the house.

Here's the area where I put up the new shepherd's hook and hummingbird feeder last night-