Home tweet home: How I turned my boring backyard into a bustling wildlife sanctuary
One year for my birthday, I asked for a wooden birdhouse to hang in the backyard. We lived in an older, heavily treed neighborhood with lots of bird activity, and I wanted to watch these little songbirds up close. My husband mounted the birdhouse onto a big oak tree, and we waited expectantly. No one ever came. It turns out that birds, like humans, are picky about where they live. You can’t just throw up a tiny A-frame and think they’ll come flying in. They crave ambience. They need to be dazzle...
