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Our Bird Feeding Station

We came up with a scathingly brilliant idea!  We made a bird feeding station! Our bird feeding station has three sections on top.  One section has jar lids screwed down on it to hold jelly for birds like orioles, mockingbirds and others with a sweet tooth.  The second section is just an open space that […]

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Sunflower Houses!

Now is a great time to get started on this project!  We had so much fun planting ours. This is one of the sunflowers that grew up around the sunflower house.  It was a Russian Mammoth that was on top of a stalk about 10 ft tall and the seed head (minus petals) was the […]

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Birdhouse Gourds

A couple of years ago, we planted birdhouse gourds!  They are actually very pretty vines with large white flowers and seem to be very drought tolerant. We made several birdhouses, and even some maracas from the smaller gourds, which we gave as Christmas presents.  Last year, we had what looked to be a vireo nesting […]

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Attracting Colorful Backyard Birds

I attended the Denton Master Gardener’s Association series on “Attracting Colorful Backyard Birds” prepared  by Carolyn and David Oldham  and delivered by Carolyn. There was a lot of information!  Texas is the number one birding state in the nation because we are under the central flyway from North America to South America. There is no […]

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The Birds of Texas

This is a great bird guide for Texas!  The book is broken up in sections on different types of birds such as wading birds, water birds, gull-like birds all the way to perching birds.  The pictures are gorgeous! The book also has a great section on attracting birds to your yard and a Texas bird […]

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