Ideas For Your Backyard

The beautfully colored male cardinal is a fixture around backyard birdfeeders through out the United States and Canada.  What a time for seeing the beautiful red northern cardinals around your birdfeeders.

By filling your feeders with seed and mostly sunflower seeds you will see the beautiful birds all winter long in your back yard. The northern cardinal is found in residential areas throughout the United States and an increase in backyard feeding by humans is generally beneficial.

Christmas is only two weeks away and what better place to be on Christmas Eve then at church.  This is the perfect time of year to start going to church on a regular basis and renewing old friendships and making new ones.

You can even start bringing the Sprit back by including some church decor into your home.  There are some beautiful church birdhouses on the market today that would help enhance your decor for everyone to enjoy.  Then in the spring you could move your church birdhouses to an outdoor location so even the birds could enjoy them for several months.

When looking on a web search for green birdhouses all I could find were paper houses.  I like the birdhouses made out of recycled barn wood for several reasons. 

There are so many birds today looking for a nesting place, so along the creek line I like to put up several bird houses a year and it is a very overgrown area.  To be able to get back and clean these often is very time consuming.  What would happen if I never got back to these houses?

Placing birdhouses made of recycled wood along the creek, they will last because of the weathered wood and also over an extended period of time they will deterioate back into the ground to help the soil unlike many metal or modern houses with a varnish or stain. 

In todays world, I think we all have a collection of something.  Some people collect plates, state spoons, the new 50 states quarters and many more items then one can image. 

I know for years everyone would by my mother any item which had a cardinal on it.  She received cardinals for any and all gift occasion and every gift giving occasion.  It got to the point she told me she was tired of cardinals and wished she could get other gifts.

Myself I collect tigers, have a room full of them and I am starting to collect different figurines to place in my backyard to enjoy.  Frogs, cranes, turtles, boy and girl statues you can collect a lot of one item or some of all.

Whatever your choice, try including figurines you can updated your garden decor where  everyone can see and enjoy when relaxing in your backyard paradise.

Does your backyard have that WOW effect when a friend walks into see it for the first time?

Close your eyes ———  envision sitting with your friends on your patio with a small fire going in the granite fire pit table. Enjoying the conversation and quality time that is so hard to come by with our busy schedules. You sit back relax and you can see your wall fountain with the accent lights making it glisten and hear the soothing sound of the water from your wall fountain among the chatter and laughter of people enjoying the evening.

Then when they are leaving after this special evening, they are so envious of what you have done to your backyard that they start asking for advice from you to improve their own little slice of paradise.

Wrens are small birds that feed on insects and vegetable matter. They are passerine birds, meaning they are perching birds or song birds. Although they are tiny birds, it has a very loud voice. Most wrens are non-migratory although there are a few that migrate to a warmer climate area. They are commonly seen in backyards all over the country.

Wrens are pretty active birds. It is usually the male wren that builds nests and lets the female wren choose which one she likes best. They are regular visitors to wren bird houses and can be found all year round.

Due to changes in the environment and destruction to the environment brought about by man’s negligence, birds cannot rely on nature alone for their survival. Gone are the days when trees abound in every city and neighborhood. Our land has been replaced by concrete buildings and skyscrapers. The birds have nowhere to go especially when they travel from one location to another.

Hanging wooden birdhouses outdoors can help our avian friends. A birdhouse can keep them safe from the cold or hot weather. It can also protect the birds from predators. Wood is the best material for a birdhouse because it does not trap heat unlike metal.

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 Terra Cotta Decorative Birdhouses are attractive and weather resistant, which make them a welcome addition to any backyard garden decor.  These terra cotta birdhouses are unique and designed to attract a wide variety of colorful birds to any backyard for all bird lovers to enjoy.

With the use of terra cotta clay this type of bird house will let the air breathe which means it will stay cool for all baby hatchlings 

Terra cotta bird houses are an excellent choice for your garden decorations and also for attracting the different colorful speices to your backyard paradise.

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What kind of decorative birdhouses should I use to improve the decor and attract birds to my backyard?

There are many beautiful metal birdhouses on the market today for all us to see and be amazed at the different shapes and sizes and styles.  If you wish to use one of these lovely decorative metal birdhouse outside please use it wisely and cover all the enterance holes and use them as decorations only.

 If we stop and think for a minute, we can imagne just how HOT it would get inside of one of these houses with the sun beating on it in just 70 to 80 degree weather.  I would hate to know how hot it would be at 100 degrees!

 So yes,  metal decorative birdhouses are beautiful, unique and great for decorations but we should’nt use them to cook (bird) eggs in. 

Have you ever sat in the evening in your backyard hammock and listened to the wind chimes ringing in the slight breeze. 

What better gift for Christmas then a set of JW Stannard wind chimes with a hand-tuned work of functional art to place wherever you wish to create an aura of reflection and tranquility!