Attracting Birds to Your Backyard: 536 Ways to Create a Haven for Your Favorite Birds

by sally-roth

Contains all the necessary information to succeed in attracting, feeding and housing beautiful songbirds like goldfinches and cardinals in your own yard.

Genres: Nature, Birds, Nonfiction, Reference, Outdoors

308 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Haley Corkery]

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As a beginner bird watcher, I have found 'Attracting Birds to Your Backyard' to be an incredibly helpful guide for bringing more feathered friends into my yard. The A-to-Z guide is filled with terrific tips and plans for building bird feeders, birdbaths, and birdhouses. I love the recipes it includes for making bird food, especially the Chickadee Doughnut Delights and Easy Bird Treat Mini-Muffins - once I make these I hope they'll be a hit with my new bird besties!

The book also includes a list of the 25 best plants to grow to attract birds to your yard, including hummingbird favorites like columbine and honeysuckle. It also helps you identify and attract over 50 different birds, and what their songs and antics really mean.

All in all, thanks to this book, I am sure my home and garden will be much more enjoyable! It's a must-read for anyone interested in attracting birds to their backyard sanctuary.

[Nat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book contains an almost overwhelming amount of information, which is fun!

[Terri · Rating 5 out of 5]

As an avid backyard bird watcher - great book with easy to absorb teachings and great ideas.

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for beginning to old-timer birders! New ideas that I hadn’t known. Very good book!

[Kim Gavlick hewlett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kicked off my birding journey in the best way!

[Charlene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sally Roth lives in southern Indiana in the county next door to me, and she writes a column in the local newspaper I love reading. When I learned she writes books, I visited my B&N to check them out.

I love watching the birds in my yard, and this book contained a lot of really good information and ideas. Don't let its A-Z format fool you - its not just a listing of facts. The sections contain pages of information and, drawings and diagrams fill them. Its formatting is very attractive and keeps you visually stimulated while you read.

Ultimately, the book makes bird watching lovers want to get creative in their yards!

[Kat Leache]

We got this book at the library and I flipped through it as I unpacked it, like I normally do with anything bird-related. This book is really NEAT! A lot of bird books are sort of jargony, and for people who know more than I do all around about birdies. This book is plain English, well-organized, and super practical. I asked for it for my birthday!!

[Michelle Dunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it, great pictures and detailed descriptions of birds in my area, their calls and what they like to eat as well as what flowers to plant to attract them.

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

I good instructional book.

[Ami Morrison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! Has so much information you can use to make your yard a fun place to be.