Feathered Friends & Backyard Guests

Category: Feathered Friends Backyard Guests

You will find a variety of helpful information on feathered friend’s backyard guests that may visit your yard under this category.

Information and recipes to help you get to know and attract songbirds, hummingbirds, butterflies, and beneficial insects to your backyard. It will also cover the pests in your yard.

The postings will have information on what your feathered friend or backyard guest eats, breeding habits, migration, and how to attract the critters to your feeders and backyard.

Hope you enjoy your stay!

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June 1, 2013

Bird Recipes Crafts & Care

Gear for Birdwatching

Gear for Birdwatching Gear for birdwatching – Glorious days are here. I started a serious fetish with tracking down and photographing each of the warblers that are said to visit Wisconsin. I live in Green Bay...

April 12, 2013

Bird Recipes Crafts & Care

How To Clean A Hummingbird Feeder

How To Clean A Hummingbird Feeder Reduce the chance of passing on harmful bacteria through the growth of seen, or unseen bacteria that is harmful to hummingbirds by cleaning your feeder regularly. Here is how...

February 28, 2013

Bird Recipes Crafts & Care

Bird Seed Suet Filled Egg Shell Recipe

Bird Seed Suet Filled Egg Shell Recipe Want to make a healthy treat for the birds this winter? Try this bird seed suet filled egg shell recipe and add whatever ingredients you think your backyard...

How To Make Hanging Homemade Birdseed Ornaments

September 12, 2012

Backyard Projects and Crafts/Feathered Friends Backyard Guests

Homemade Birdseed Ornaments Make Your Own

Follow the recipe for these birdseed ornaments and the next day you have a sweet treat for your birds. The ornaments would make wonderful holiday gifts for friends and family as well as wedding favors...

What a Cucumber Beetle Looks Like and How to Get Rid of Them

June 28, 2012

Beetles/Garden Pests

Cucumber Beetles How to Get Rid of Them

Cucumber Beetles This article focuses on cucumber beetles and how to get rid of them in your garden. Pictures of two types and how to prevent them from coming back.

June 22, 2012

Bird Recipes Crafts & Care

No Sprout Bird Seed

No Sprout Bird Seed Show of hands. How many of you have weed sprouts under your bird feeders right now? I used to! Until I learned this no sprout bird seed secret.

April 5, 2012

Garden Pests/Lawn and Yard Care

Common Lawn Pests

Common Lawn Pests Disease and common lawn pests can be prevented or cured by following a few basic steps. Be sure to set your low mower height to 1-1/2 inches, have a sharp blade, have...

January 26, 2012

Bird Recipes Crafts & Care

Making Your Yard Hummingbird Pleasant

Making Your Yard Hummingbird Pleasant Making your yard hummingbird pleasant – How can you get hummingbirds to visit your yard year after year? It’s not as difficult as one might imagine. If you provide your...

November 16, 2011

Flowers/Garden Pests

Slug Prevention of Hostas

Slug Prevention of Hostas Hostas are extremely easy to grow and add visual appeal to flower beds. They are hardy plants that look wonderful in any season. There is one garden pest that feels the...

March 13, 2011

Bird Recipes Crafts & Care

When Do the Hummingbirds Return

When Do the Hummingbirds Return Each year the neighbor lady asks me this question. For her, I finally just said; watch for my feeders to go up. You’ll know 🙂 For the rest of you,...

January 15, 2011

Butterflies, Moths Skippers

Cabbage White Caterpillar and Butterfly

Cabbage White Caterpillar and Butterfly The cabbage white caterpillar and butterfly can wreak havoc on your cabbage and mustard family crops. The butterfly lays the eggs on your plants. The caterpillars eat your leaves and...

January 2, 2011

Insects

Mason Bee

Mason Bee There are several kinds of bees, The one I love to see, attract and even live in my yard is the Mason bee. Mason bees are non-stinging bees and valuable to pollinating plants. Can...

April 7, 2010

Beetles/Through The Seasons

Preventing Tick Bites and Embeddings

Preventing Tick Bites and Embeddings After long winters, the first thing I want to do is get out and enjoy the weather and fresh air. Heading through the long grass normally knocks off some unpleasant...