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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Clear Away the Snow for Bad Weather Birds

January 18, 2020 Bernadette 2 Comments backyard wildlife habitat, feeding wild birds, heavy snowfall, photo of birds, songbirds in winter, wild birds in winter

Winter may begin in December, but the heaviest snows always seem to come in the new year, especially January and

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Attract Birds With Homemade Treat Cakes

February 2, 2019February 16, 2019 Bernadette 5 Comments backyard wildlife habitat, bird feeders, bird treats, birds, feeding backyard birds", feeding wild birds, homemade bird treats, making bird treats, wild bird art, wild birds, wild birds note cards

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Bad Weather Birds, Clear a Space in the Snowstorm

January 5, 2019 Bernadette 1 Comment backyard wildlife habitat, feeding wild birds, heavy snowfall, photo of birds, songbirds in winter, wild birds in winter

I’D BE REMISS if I didn’t keep Cat TV up and running, even in cold and snowy weather. Not only

backyard birds on snowy day

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Bad Weather Birds

January 23, 2016January 5, 2019 Bernadette 2 Comments backyard wildlife habitat, feeding wild birds, heavy snowfall, photo of birds, songbirds in winter, wild birds in winter

I’D BE REMISS if I didn’t keep Cat TV up and running, even in cold and snowy weather. Not only

Namir is perfectly camouflaged, of course; most of these leaves are Virginia creeper, but can you see the poison ivy?

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Sweet and Sour in Summer, Poison Ivy!

June 6, 2015June 6, 2015 Bernadette 1 Comment backyard, feeding wild birds, identifying poison ivy, managing poison ivy, native plants, poison ivy, poison ivy and pets, raspberries

Itch. Itch. Scratch scratch. Scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch DIG DIG—aaaggghhh! No, it’s not your cat or dog, it’s you!

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: An Introduction

March 14, 2015 Bernadette 0 Comments backyard wildlife habitat, birds in your backyard, creating your backyard wildlife habitat, feeding birds in your backyard, feeding wild birds, native plants in your garden

THIS IS THE first in a series of articles on building your backyard wildlife habitat and explains just what this

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Bad Weather Birds

February 15, 2015February 15, 2015 Bernadette 4 Comments backyard wildlife habitat, feeding wild birds, heavy snowfall, photo of birds, songbirds in winter, wild birds in winter

I’D BE REMISS if I didn’t keep Cat TV up and running, even in cold and snowy weather. Not only

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Sweet and Sour in Summer, Poison Ivy!

May 24, 2014May 25, 2014 Bernadette 1 Comment backyard, feeding wild birds, identifying poison ivy, managing poison ivy, native plants, poison ivy, poison ivy and pets, raspberries

Itch. Itch. Scratch scratch. Scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch DIG DIG—aaaggghhh! No, it’s not your cat or dog, it’s you!

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: An Introduction

April 5, 2014December 11, 2014 Bernadette 4 Comments backyard wildlife habitat, birds in your backyard, creating your backyard wildlife habitat, feeding birds in your backyard, feeding wild birds, native plants in your garden

THIS IS THE first in a series of articles on building your backyard wildlife habitat and explains just what this

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Attract Birds With Homemade Treat Cakes

January 11, 2014February 2, 2019 Bernadette 4 Comments backyard wildlife habitat, bird feeders, bird treats, birds, feeding backyard birds", feeding wild birds, homemade bird treats, making bird treats, wild bird art, wild birds, wild birds note cards

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Featured Artwork and April Desktop Calendar: Three Black and White Cats

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This month’s artwork began as a commissioned portrait, and that portrait has a story—one of the few that I started,

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Featured Artwork and April Desktop Calendar: Three Black and White Cats
Daily Photo: What’s the Deal About the Spinach?
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