The Creative Cat - backyard wildlife habitat Archive

A New View

Published on May 11, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, mimi

Mimi wants to know what this tree is doing lying atop her savannah of grasses and wildflowers where she can prowl like the panther she is, but she’ll just have to make due with the rest of the yard for now. A quick and powerful spring storm moved through yesterday

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Tags: backyard, black cat, black cats, tree down

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: What’s Growing in Your Backyard?

Published on April 27, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, garden, photographs, Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

THINGS ARE SPROUTING every minute out there in your yard, so it’s time to get out there and get to know your friends! Yes, everything that grows out there is your friend in one way or another, even the dandelions, and maybe even the poison ivy. . . . .

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Tags: backyard wildlife habitat, bee on a daisy, creating your backyard wildlife habitat, diagram of backyard wildlife habitat, habitat information, habitat inventory, mulberries on tree, petersons field guide to trees and shrubs, tall pink phlox, tiger swallowtail on butterfly bush, trees and wildflowers of north america, wildflower identification, wildflowers of western pennsylvania, Wplongform

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Begin in Spring to Control Fleas

Published on April 6, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, fleas, garden, garden cats, garden sprites, spring, tortoiseshell cats, wildlife, Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Fleas, like most other insects, live everywhere around us and it’s how we manage our surroundings that helps to control their populations. Like managing mosquitoes, for instance, by eliminating still pools of water where they can breed, you can also manage the flea population around your yard without the use

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Tags: backyard wildlife, backyard wildlife habitat, beneficial nematodes, cat fleas, diatomaceous earth, fleas, fleas in the yard, managing fleas organically, organic flea products, Wplongform

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Featured Artwork: A Bird’s Nest!

Published on April 3, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, featured artwork, pencil

What?! It’s been cats, cats, cats, a few dogs, dogs dogs, and now a bird’s nest? Well, I do maintain and write about backyard wildlife habitats, and aside from my cats I draw birds and other creatures as well. It’s also spring and quite a few birds are very busy

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Tags: birds nest with eggs, sketch of birds nest, sketches from the lost sketchbook

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Happy Easter, Eostre, Renewal and Spring

Published on March 31, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, holiday, rabbit

Have a blessed and beautiful day from our back yard to yours! Browse some rescued cats and kittens! All images used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission. Please ask if you are interested in using

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Tags: easter, photography, rabbit, wild rabbit

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Daily Photo Reprise: The Big Branch, 2010

Published on March 13, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, cat photographs, cookie, daily photo, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats, winter

Most of the snow is melted out there, and new snow falling is pretty but not amounting to much. Browsing photos I often encounter Cookie, including these from March 2010, as the snow slowly melted after a series of heavy storms in February and on our first excursion outdoors in

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Tags: cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cats, cookie in the backyard, feline photographs, pet photography, pets, photography, tortoiseshell cat

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Poetry Inspired in My Backyard

Published on March 3, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, garden, photographs, poetry

This morning I looked out on a tentative sun shining upon a light overnight snowfall, the delicate beauty of light and shadow and the cold air full of sparkling snowflakes. Of course I took a few photographs and then I grabbed my pastels and sketched that even before I sketched

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Tags: nature poetry, poetry, poetry about birds, poetry about nature, poetry featuring birds, poetry inspired by nature

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Daily Photo Reprise: Al Fresco, 2011

Published on February 21, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, cookie, daily photo, my household of felines, tortoiseshell cats, winter

Mimi was not so lucky today—we stepped out to feed the birds and she only too the time to sniff a few things then run back inside! We’ve been going outside every day all winter long, but Cookie found the snow and ice just weren’t fun anymore on her 19-year-old

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Tags: cat photographs, cookie in the backyard, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, tortoiseshell cat

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It’s the Great Backyard Bird Count!

Published on February 16, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, photographs, wildlife

I was so taken with thoughts of gardening this past week I didn’t even take time to post information about the Great Backyard Bird Count! And if, as I am, you are concerned about all the articles citing declining songbird species and putting the blame on cats in general, especially stray

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Tags: citizen science, feeding birds, great backyard bird count, photography, wild birds

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Modifying Your Design

Published on February 16, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, cats, dog, garden, Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Such potential! It’s almost time to plant the peas…and a little bit of snow on my garden this morning didn’t deter me from dreaming of what this year’s garden would look like, and remembering happy warm and sunny summer mornings out there with my feline supervisers. I’m happily planning out

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Tags: attracting hummingbirds, backyard, baltimore orioles, birdbath, feeding backyard birds", feeding birds in your backyard, feeding wild birds, garden plants not toxic to pets, giving birds protection from predators, killing slugs, monarch butterflies, native plants, using native plants in your yard

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