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Attracting Birds
Birds in Your Backyard
Attracting birds to a garden gives a
different perspective and interest to a garden.
Watching birds feeding, chasing and playing can offer many relaxing and
entertaining hours to the gardener.
Planning a garden to attract birds can be accomplished by simply putting
out a feeder and some water, though the greatest mix of bird species occurs
where several habitats come together.
With the right mix of trees, shrubs, vines and lawn, the needs of many
bird species can be met. Backyard
bird-watching allows gardeners to reclaim a very small part of the natural
world lost to them by houses and shopping centers. The following is a list of the major species
and varieties of trees that will grow in our area and attract birds.
Trees
Alpine
Fir Seeds-insects-shelter
American
Holly
Fruit-shelter
American
Sweet Gum Seeds-shelter
Amur
Maple Buds-seeds-shelter
Black
Alder Seeds-pollen-shelter
Burr
Oak Acorns-insects-shelter
Canada
Hemlock Seed-shelter
Cherry
Fruit-shelter
Cockspur
Hawthorn Fruit-insects-shelter
Colorado
Blue Spruce
Seeds-shelter
Colorado
Green Spruce Seeds-shelter
Common
Hackberry Fruit-shelter
Concolor Fir Seeds-insects-shelter
Crabapples Fruit-shelter
Engelmann
Spruce Seeds-shelter
Flowering
Dogwood Fruit-insects-shelter
Gambell Oak Acorns-insects-shelter
Grand
Fir Seeds-insects-shelter
Hedge
Maple Buds-seeds-shelter
Mountain
Ash Fruit-shelter
Norway
Spruce Seeds-shelter
Pines Seeds-shelter
River
Birch Buds-seeds-insects
Serviceberry Fruit
Swamp
White Oak Acorns-insects-shelter
Thinleaf Alder Seeds-pollen-shelter
Utah
Juniper Fruit-shelter
Washington
Hawthorn Fruit-insects-shelter
Western
Hackberry Fruit-shelter
Western
Hemlock Seeds-shelter
Western
Juniper Fruit-shelter
Western
Larch Seeds-shelter
White
Mulberry Fruit-shelter
Shrubs
Alpine
Currant Flowers-fruit-insects
American
Elderberry Fruit-shelter
Barberry Fruit-shelter
Burning
Bush Fruit-shelter
Common
Snowberry Fruit-flowers
Coralberry Fruit-flowers
Cotoneaster Fruit-shelter
Father
Hugo Rose Fruit-shelter
Firethorn/Pyracantha Fruit-shelter
Golden
Currant Flowers-fruit-insects
Goldflame Honeysuckle (vine) Fruit-insects-shelter
Harison’s Yellow-Austrian Fruit-shelter
Copper Rose
Holly Fruit-shelter
Japanese
Honeysuckle (vine) Fruit-insects-shelter
Oregon
Grape Fruit-shelter
Purple
Leaf
Red
Elderberry Fruit-shelter
Red
Tip Photinia Fruit-shelter
Redtwig Dogwood Fruit-insects-shelter
Rose Fruit-shelter
(birds prefer
roses that produce a tangle of stems and clusters of “hips”)
Serviceberry
Fruit
Tatarian Honeysuckle Fruit-insects-shelter
Viburnum species Fruit-shelter-insects
Western
Sand Cherry Fruit-shelter
Yellowtwig Dogwood Fruit-insects-shelter
Annuals Perennials
Ageratum Aster
Calendula Bellflower
Coreopsis Blanket
Flower
Cosmos California
Poppy
Marigold Chrysanthemum
Nasturtium Columbine
Portulaca Coreopsis
Snapdragon Delphinium
Statice Foxglove
Sunflower Gloriosa Daisy
Sweet
Alyssum Goldenrod
Zinnia Purple
Coneflower
Sunflower
Yarrow