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Welcoming the Birds at Beltane

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Plant a Bird-Friendly Garden
Welcoming the Birds at Beltane

Planting flowering plants provides shelter, seeds, and food for birds.

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Plant a garden to attract even more birds to your yard. There are a number of different plants that attract birds, because they provide shelter, food, and hiding places. Consider some of these for your garden:

  • For protection and nesting: dogwood trees, firs, spruce, pines, mulberry trees, juniper
  • For seed and fruit: bee balm, sunflowers, snapdragons, coneflower, goldenrod
  • For hiding to observe the yard: shrubs and vines like hollyhock, crabapples, chokecherry, Virginia creeper, sumac, yew

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