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 Holly Yocum, Ocala, Florida

 My Little Green Place is in my backyard. This picture has Northern Cardinals, (both male and female), Mourning Dove, and a Blue Jay showing in it.  I have an assortment of birds that come and go and feel very welcome. I put out many different kinds of food each day! Last I counted, I have had over 18 varieties of birds come. 

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Kaytria Stauffer, Memphis, New York

 My house is situated on the calm Seneca River. On one side of the river is a wooded area and on my side is houses. Although small, my backyard offers a lot of cover for birds while they eat at one of my several feeders. The diversity of birds is high here as well. Throughout the year, there are various trypes of waterfowl, passerines, and predators.

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Doris Frechette,  Lowell, Massachusetts

My little green place is in my backyard. I do family childcare and I wanted to include birds in my daycare surrounding because a lot of children I have live in apartment buildings and rarely get to see birds up close. We have 5 bird houses along the perimeter of the yard on the posts of the stockade fence. We have 4 bird houses above the children's park bench, and 4 bird feeders on a limb in the pine tree. we also have a bird bath in the middle of our flower garden. It is just wonderful to see how excited the children get when the birds arrive. They stop what they're doing and say 'Shhhhhhh, here come the birds.'

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Terri Sabados, West Long Branch, New Jersey

Although I live in a busy suburb near the intersection of a major highway and the front of my house faces a busy city street and next door is an office complex, in my backyard I have been able to create a Green habitat for our animal friends. It helps that the back of our property borders a small woods and a secluded creek.

 In my backyard, partially surrounded by a wooden fence, I have a 9’ X 14’ area that is surrounded by a variety of trees, bushes and is full of flowering plants. I have 4 suet, thistle and birdseed blend feeders, and 2 water sources that nourish hundreds of birds and animals a week.  The birds feel very safe and I can walk among them as they feed and just visit with each other; Blue Jays, Cardinals, Chickadees, Mockingbirds, Catbirds, Doves, Grackles, Red Winged Black Birds, Junco’s, Sparrows, Nuthatch and Starlings.  There are visits of beautiful Goldfinch, House-Finch, Purple Finch and once a rare Red Crossbill Baby that we nursed for 3 weeks until it was able to fly away.  Daily we will see our Hairy Woodpeckers with the Red Bellied Woodpecker and a mating pair of Northern Flickers that are always together.  The friendliest is our Tufted Titmouse pair that will hop up and take bits of peanuts from us.  Thankfully we rarely see the Red-Tail and Coopers Hawks that live in the area. This year the Hummingbirds came and also a Hummingbird Moth. Each spring we wait for the return and yell of the female Mallard calling us outside to introduce us to her new mate.  

We have our resident Groundhog, rabbits and about 20 squirrels that sit quietly among the birds and “share” the seeds (with the occasional peanut thrown in).  At night we sometimes see 3 or 4 deer bunked down in the very back of the yard with the reflection in their eyes showing up front the busy head lights of the street in front.  Late at night we see within 3’ from the back door skunks, opossum and raccoons that stroll by and last week we had to gently pick up and take a snapping turtle ¼ mile away to a stream for safety. 

We are truly blessed.

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Tammy Walker, Ozark, Alabama   (no picture)

My little green place is in my own backyard. It is a good place for birds because there is always water and seed available. My backyard has many trees and bushes. Also my dogs shed a lot and the birds like the hair to make nests. My husband and I have a garden every year and we always seem to grow enough tomatoes for the birds to share. I especially enjoy the bluebirds that come to our yard every year. They are the most amazing color of blue I have ever seen.

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Molly Evert, Lagrange, Georgia

Tina Tate, Kingsport, Tennessee

Our little green place for our birds of the neighborhood are actually two places! The first is a double feeder in the front yard, about 15 ft from our front porch. The second place, is our line of trees, about an half an acre back from the back of the house. Every evening, the sky is filled with about 60 vultures, that roost in our trees for the evening. They are fascinating! The attached picture is our backyard. The birds roost in the above trees!

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Seth Reams, Portland, Oregon

Here's a photo of a female Anna's Hummingbird just outside our office window in our backyard.

Even though we live in a busy neighborhood, just making sure that there is clean water, fresh food and some great bramble piles (for good hiding places) insures us endless days of bird watching and enjoyment. We plant only native species, try to have a variety of flowers so that we have blooms year-round and try to keep the "hustle and bustle" of urban living out of our backyard, which for us is our Great Little Green Place!

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Mary A. Lewis, Evanston, Illinois

 

We love to feed and watch the cardinals, sparrows, and chickadees that make our back yard their home. Through each of the seasons, we tend to the flowers, seeds and fresh water, while these two large dense arbor vitae trees provide shelter for many bird families. This beautiful red cardinal was nice enough to pose in front of the sky-blue morning glories.

Shot this photo of one of more than a dozen mature and juvenile bald eagles we saw while boating in the Mississippi River along the Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. We witnessed one eagle swoop down into the river just ahead of us, but the fish turned out to be the one that got away!

The cardinals in our back yard have us trained. We try to give them a handful of seeds in a small saucer every day, and it’s a race to see if the squirrels or birds will get to them first. If I’m in the garden when the cardinal family arrives, they will call to me until I go get the treats.

Shot this photo of Western Scrub-Jay while walking through the Botanical Garden at UC/Berkeley. The wildlife there certainly have an earthly paradise.

 

 

This birdbath in our back yard, filled daily with fresh water, is a favorite place for all types of birds to enjoy. It is set right in the middle of my garden between two large dense arbor vitae trees that provide shelter for many bird families.

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Shirin Hola, Casper, WY

This is my backyard in Casper, Wyoming. Our town is 'mile' high, prairie country and the soil is hard clay. The altitude, lack of rain and the soil make it difficult to grow stuff. Yet my backyard is green. It is a peaceful haven for the birds and humans.

The hummingbirds enjoy the trumpet vine and scarletgillia, the baby doves enjoy taking a dip early morning in the birdbath; the finches, chickadees and warblers love to pick seeds right off my sunflowers.

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Jan Wiley, Woolwine, Virginia

Jan E. Gantz, Monticello, Illinois

My little Green Place is located at the back of my yard. It has two water sources in simple flower pot dishes placed on the ground, a finch feeder, a ladder for perching at various heights, pots of oregano, and grasses that provide seed and protection.

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Barbara Gilhooly, St. Paul, Minnesota

I painted this Scarlet Tanager after visiting New York city and taking my first bird walk in Central Park. I had never been birding and really did not have very good optics.  In fact I spotted this amazing red bird without any optics and could not believe how bright red he was.  One of the other birders was delighted, because she needed the Scarlet Tanager for her life list and continued to thank me during the group walk.  Our leader, Star Saphire was incredible. We saw over 45 bird species. A wonderful 'not so' little green place, Central Park, NYC.

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Beth Westphal, Scandia, Minnesota

This Little Green Place for Birds is in my yard. It is a good place for birds because the bird feeder provides food, the chair provides water, and the tree provides shelter. The birds here are much more trusting and friendly than other birds.

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Kaylee Matuszak,  (youth entry) Duluth, MN 

My Little Green Place is in the corner of my backyard.  The grape vine provides a great place for birds to rest while protected from predators and the hot summer sun.  We added a bird bath so that they can wash themselves and get a drink. The grape vine also provides a yummy snack.

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Audrey Malloy, Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Audrey Malloy wrote to tell us how she notices, documents, and sometimes is able to save birds who collide with office buildings in downtown Cleveland:

I can take a camera phone photo of one of the danger areas and the ER (the little green space I use for recovery purposes).  I walk 1.5 miles every morning down here and there are several danger areas and ERs.  Like an EMT, I get them to the closest and safest place--although I have been known to hold them and keep them warm traveling to the most suitable place if I find it most advisable. I figure it might be like people--keep the victim warm to avoid the hazard of shock.  It's kind of a judgment call each time--depends on my guess on how recently they hit.  I am getting pretty good at guessing recovery time.

I have a bit of an advantage because very often I study the birds very close up after they hit the buildings.  When they are still alive, I move them as they seem to strike certain buildings more often, at a certain hour of the day and tend to land and try to recover in heavy traffic areas.  (I don't even want to tell you how many times I have seen people step on them--accidentally and, shamefully, on purpose.)  I move them to more secluded spots where I have observed that they recover after about an hour of quiet time and move on.  I recently identified several ovenbirds.   I have finally stooped to photographing a deceased one (with a camera phone unfortunately)

The office building I work in is over 20 years old and back then, architects and building owners just did not think of this stuff.  And, in its defense (the building), we have way fewer incidents of head-ons than other buildings (the Key Tower--on any given morning during both spring and fall migration, you can pick up 50 or more bodies each and every day--I know because one day I did just that.  Out of 50 some birds--only 2 made it.  Our building's design I think actually helps.  The large "silver" construction material between the rows of windows helps to break it up some while other buildings seem almost floor to ceiling glass.  Anyway, that's what I think.

I love the migration because you have a chance to see some real beauties.  So far, since I began to document them, I have seen common yellowthroats (common!?), a black crowned heron (probably up from Whiskey Island), orange crowned warblers, black throated warblers, one vesper sparrow, ovenbirds and yesterday a brown thrasher.  I was worried about that one, but it made it.  What seems odd is that they come in waves.  For example, on let's say a Tuesday through Friday, you see literally hundreds of orange crowned warblers.  Then they are gone.  A few days later, the common yellowthroats pass through.  Almost like a wave of immigrants or, as I like to think of them, musical acts moving through the city, stopping to give their concert, and on their way again.

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Katie Brasted, Belle Chasse, Louisiana

Below is an aerial view of Woodlands Trail and Park, in Louisiana.  Woodlands Trail and Park is an educational, recreational and historical greenway and trail within a 609-acre bottomland hardwood forest in Southeastern Louisiana.  This is one of the regions' last stands of bottomland hardwood, coastal forests.  Visit our website at www.woodlandstrail.org and scroll down on the opening page to see the 10,000-acre peninsula that is the focus of our efforts.  If you click on the link to the power point below, you will see the evening exodus of birds from Woodlands Trail and Park. 

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Mary Way, Gorham, New York

These little birds built a nest and hatched eggs this summer in this house built by my father-in-law.

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Laura Ouimette, Canandaigua, New York

Our neighbors were surprised to find this nest under their patio chair – complete with eggs.

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Janet Bills, Macedon, New York 

Here are two pictures of a robin's nest that was in an 8- foot fraser fir in our backyard. I also had a house finch nest in a hanging pot on my front porch and a family of bluebirds in the box in my herb garden.

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Bob Williams, Bloomington, Illinois

 

This photo was taken in a tiny shelter which has two benches in it at Tipton Park in Bloomington, IL. This park about a couple of blocks in area and has two lakes, a pond, and marsh areas around and in between them and is home to a number of birds including many ducks, geese and occasionally a heron who lived in the pond almost all last year.
This bird was feeding her little ones this summer.

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Treina Tai McAlister, Houston, Texas

My little Green Place is on the University of Houston's Campus. It
provides a natural environment with plush trees and multiple water
fountains, thereby making it a wonderful green place for birds.
Below are images of a hawk, that decided to rest on my supervisor's
(Dr. Charles Peters) office ledge for a couple of hours. We believe that it is a juvenile Red-tailed hawk...probably not far from its nest.

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Heidi Perryman, Martinez, California

An old palm tree downtown houses a barn owl family. Unfortunately, shortly after the nest was discovered this palm tree's bark was shaved for appearance and the entire population was displaced. Their loss was sorely noticed.

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Howard O. Clark, Clovis, California

Fresno and Clovis in Fresno County, CA, have small flood control basins that usually have water year-round.  Here’s a picture of one that’s popular with the birds. The photo was taken in the afternoon when birds usually hang low – but they are there!

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Susan Fleming, Muskego Wisconsin

This is a pond and flower garden with many bird feeders in my backyard. The birds seem to love to splash in the fountain in the pond. They roll around in the gravel and mulch to groom themselves and besides the four bird feeders directly next to the pond, there are many bird food flowers, vines, and bushes. Grape vine, Virginia creeper, cardinal flower, purple cone flowers, bee balm, service berry bush, columbine, sunflowers, etc. There are always birds in the smoke bush too. There are two bird houses on either side of the smoke bush in addition to a white pine for shelter. This little green place in my yard has everything a bird needs;  food, water and shelter.

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Melanie Walrod, Pass Christian, Mississippi

Our Little Green Place is in our DeLisle/Pass Christian Elementary School Courtyard Garden.  It is located in the center of our campus and can be viewed by all the students.  What is exciting about Our Little Green Place is that it is constantly being visited by birds.  One of the 2nd grade classes feeds the birds daily and makes sure that the bird bath is always full.  Our parent volunteer classroom garden program works with the students from kindergarten to 5th grade where many of the students are involved in ensuring that this green place remains a healthy wildlife habitat, especially for the birds.  All season the birds visit this garden and the students take great pride in this.  We have even used the garden as the center for our interactive student great backyard bird count lessons.  As the students were learning to identify birds, they were actually observing birds in their gardens.  In the first picture, you can see part of our "winter" version of Our Little Green Place and several of our bird feeders.  You also see a 5th graders learning about our common Mississippi birds from one of our garden volunteers.  In the second picture, finches are on our sock feeder.  Their numbers amazed the students.   Our Little Green Place produces much education, pride and joy for the students and staff!

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Melissa Mayntz, Orem, UT

I live in Orem, Utah, just four blocks from the city center and along
one of the busiest streets in the city (five lanes). Our yard is
relatively bare, with only a few small plantings. While I do have
several birdfeeders and birdbaths, I wanted to provide shelter for our
backyard birds until the trees we've planted grow up. This past
spring, when the city was pruning trees in a nearby park, I scrounged
a lot of larger branches of different types, and filled in a small
hidden section at the side of our house to form a natural brush pile.
During the summer, we let the weeds take over, and now that brush pile
is a favorite hiding space for sparrows and house finches. We even had
a mallard duck nest there in the spring (our neighbors have a pond)!
Since we do have a hawk that visits occasionally, that hiding place is
essential for the birds' safety, and we've noticed more and more of
them enjoying it throughout the summer. It may not be pretty, but they
do love it!
We may live in the city, but the birds can too!  I also keep a
birding blog about my goal to create a bird habitat in the backyard:
Backyard Birds Utah (http://backyardbirdsutah.blogspot.com/).
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My little green place is a small section of Ellicott Creek Park located along Tonawanda Creek in the town Amherst, NY (Google Map).  There is a little island in the middle of the creek adjacent to the park, which is inaccessible except by water, making it an ideal sanctuary to raise goslings amidst busy suburbia.   Only a short swim away is lush green grass full of bugs for their babies to snack on, and I, sitting quietly with my camera, relaxing in the mid-afternoon sun.

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Nancy Mone, Tucson, Arizona

I took these two pictures while on vacation in Arizona earlier this month.  The first picture is the portico outside the Westin LaPaloma resort in the Catalina Mountains outside Tucson.  The black flecks on the ceiling railing just above the trees are birds.  The second picture is a closeup of them-----barn swallows.  The portico is big and shaded---with a very large fountain front and center surrounded by pretty flowers.  The barn swallows fly in and out taking advantage of the shade (the mid-day heat was 110) and the coolness provided by the water fountain).  There were no other birds, just the swallows and, of course, no nests (I am sure the management would not allow it and would knock any nests down ASAP).  However, the birds know a good thing when they see it----rooms at this resort start at $400 a night in season---and why not take advantage of an upscale residence rather than a hot, smelly, dusty barn. You never know where you are going to find urban birds.

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Donald Greenwood, Ponce Inlet, Florida

Pictures of Swallows resting on my Ponce Inlet, Florida condo patio/windowsill  (and everyone else's condo) during Tropical Storm Fay, August 21, 2008, about 6 pm. Never saw so many birds before - flying, landing, etc.Thousands of Swallows resting on the east-side of the condo buildings.

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Gail Becraft, Sanders, Kentucky

This is our little green space at the school I work at, Kathryn Winn in Carrollton Kentucky. It is a courtyard. For me, it is a space away from the hustle and a relaxing retreat to share with the children, birds, turtles and many other creatures.  There is a small pond that is surrounded by berry bushes, trees and grasses for the birds to nibble on. Since it is a protected area birds have little to be threatened with while here. I have seen cardinals, wrens, swallows and blue jays at times.

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Kelly and Juliana Lannutti, Willow Grove, PA

 Our little green place is our backyard.  My 6 year old daughter, Juliana,
calls it "our Nature Center"!    It was the main reason we purchased our
home last year, and all of our hard work has been well rewarded with daily
visits from many types of birds.  After visiting a local nature center in
our area, we felt in love with this property because of all of the wildlife
we saw when touring the house.  It is a great green space for birds and they
love coming here.
There are a lot of plants that berry throughout the year and also some
mature trees that provide shelter and are great places for the birds to find
insects to eat.  We have added two feeders for additional food and a bird
bath for a water source.  It has been fun experimenting with the types of feed
the birds prefer!
We spend much of our time at home looking out at this area observing and
identifying the birds that visit us. We also have front row seats at these
windows each day to conduct bird counts and have submitted our data for the
GBBC.
We are working toward removing the invasive plants as naturally as we can.
We don't want to pull out too much too fast though because we know that
birds need ground cover for hiding spots. We also hope to add plants each
year that will continue to attract our feathered friends.
Thanks for looking at the "Lannutti Nature Center".  We love it here!!

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Kathleen Whelen, El Paso, Texas

This little green place is our Certified Backyard Habitat in El Paso, Texas. Situated in the Chihuahuan Desert within the urban sprawl, our backyard is a safe haven for many native species. By allowing the native vegetation to grow and disperse seeds the bird have a continuous supply of food, shelter and nesting material.The bird shown is a curve-billed thrasher. We have several that nest in the small stand of mesquite and cactus. They are curious and not at all shy. In the summer, while feeding their young, they would readily accept a mealworm offering to supplement their diet.

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Cheryl Reynolds, Martinez, CA

This little green place is a creek in a urban city that beavers have inhabited. They have enriched the creek with still ponds that have in turn become home to many birds. Green Herons, Egrets,Black Phoebe,Marsh Wrens,  and Belted Kingfisher. are just a few of the birds that feel welcome here.

Heidi from Worth-a-Dam in Martinez CA writes: "(I wanted) to emphasize the postive effect beavers can have on birds.Sediment is trapped by beaver dams, insects arrive to break down the organic material. Better bugs mean better bug eaters and soon there are more dense and varied fish species. Although beavers take trees, they actual practice a natural "coppice cutting" that makes tree growth more dense and brushy over time and ideal nesting habitat. This and the increased fish draws more types of birdlife. Last year we had new green heron, cormerant, and even scaup for the first time ever."

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Bill Arrants, Brentwood, Tennessee

 Here is my "Little Green Space".  I built the ponds and the little river connecting them.  The birds really seem to like the flowing water and use it a lot.  My granddaughter started calling the stream 'the little river' when she was about 6 and the name has stuck.

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Theresa Beck, Bay City, MI

My little green place is my backyard. We have lots of good things for birds in our yard including a birdbath, several feeders, and sunflowers.
In this photo are the seagulls that like to stop in for lunch occasionally. On this day they were dining on day-old bread, and popcorn.
We also get this pair of mallards that stop by in the mornings for some corn. They fly in from the Saginaw River that is just blocks away from my home.

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ShawnMarie Mann, Dauphin, PA

This little green place is the flowerbed by our driveway and mailbox.  We plant sunflowers so the butterflies and bees have someplace to land (there is one of each in this picture.)  Birds like to sit in our flower bed because we have a birdbath nearby for water and the flowers offer protection from predators and food during summer, fall and winter. 

We always let our sunflowers go to seed and their dry flower heads give the birds a much needed snack when the snow starts to fall. 

Paerki, Baltimore, Maryland

Finally, it was hard for me to choose a single photo, video or story about one specific place as a good little green place for birds. You see, I am the type of person that goes for walks in the evening and takes nuts with me to feed the squirrels, I take germinating birdseed, dropping it around trees, paths and by flowers, and I also take wildflower seeds with me and throw them in the dirt along some of the public wooded green paths in my neighborhood, so that I may add a littler color and beauty against a lush green landscape. I could be writing about everywhere.

In addition, when my spring and summer plants die, I leave the pots outside so that birds can

use the branches and twigs for their nests and the seeds for nourishment. A little green place for birds is where ever you want it to be. I am choosing the planet to be my entire green space for birds. I have created a collage to represent my personal gardens and the places in my community where I frequently feed our clever, entertaining, silly, interesting, intelligent, beautiful, happy, singing creatures we call birds. – paerki :)

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Anita V. Bauer, Garden Grove, California

These doves came to my patio located in Garden Grove , California this Spring.  I had 3 generations of babies born in my “bird’s eye view” area where I could see them behind the glass (outside).

 

 

 

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Brigitte Peck Ki Laou, Canada

 My little green place is my backyard where I have planted plenty of bird friendly shrubs and flowers such as sunflowers, monarda didyma, a family of viburnum etc. Besides, bird houses and water are nearby. My birds are also offered different kind of seeds. I am sure my backyard is a great place for birds and I have the most happiest birds in my backyard.(Notice the volunteer sunflowers growing up through the bricks near the birdfeeders!)

American Goldfinches like perching on our sunflowers just as much as bees

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Matthew Malina, New York City

 

This picture was taken from my window, 21st floor on East 6th street in Manhattan. This Red-tailed Hawk likes to hunt pigeons who live in a coop on a tenement across the street.

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G. Mikel, Fort Worth, Texas

My little green place is a shrub in my front flower bed.
I’ve fed the cardinals that nested there for quite some time and they graced me w/a perfect “bird’s eye” view when they started their family. Aren’t their babies beautiful?
All three survived and I’ve seen recently seen them on a feeder I have in another location in my yard.  What a joy!

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V. Clark, Sutton, Ontario, Canada

My little green place is in my back yard. It is perfect for birds because there is food , shelter and shade as well as water for them. In addition there are nesting boxes in the trees. We love our birds. Not seen in the picture is our hot tub on our fenced back porch. We sit there every morning year round to watch the birds that come to their oasis. 

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C & Z Witten	Fountaintown, IN

In our Little Green Space the sunflowers offer seeds for the birds to munch on, nectar provides food and nourishment for hummingbirds, bees and butterflies.  Sunflowers provide shade for toads and crickets, which also provides food for birds.

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K. Farrar, Phoenix, Arizona 

 Rock Pigeon

My backyard is my green place. I place fresh water at varied depths in different places as well as feeders. I had 10 huge ficus trees that drew in many birds. I lost those trees in a 3 day freeze last year but the birds come anyways. I get approx 2 to 3 flocks of pigeons (80 birds) daily plus, mockingbirds, wild lovebirds, hummingbirds, warblers, cowbirds, woodpeckers, grackles, doves, cactus wren, quail, finch and hawks!

I have tons of photos & video. I love to rehabilitate wounded birds and release the ones who make full recovery. I truly enjoy the birds about 2 to 3 hours per day!

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Derinda Lesher, Campbell. CA

  I live in a townhouse and for years my patio was bare and uninteresting.  I had a two wooden lawn chairs and a small table between them and nothing else sitting in the 11 x16 foot space.  After reading, and becoming inspired by, the book "The Secret Garden," I decided to create my own "secret garden" in my small townhouse patio.  I started with a hummingbird feeder and a finch feeder.  When the birds began to arrive, I was excited and encouraged, and I added two more bird feeders and a bird bath.  I began purchasing small trees and plants and put them into clay pots.  My once very bare patio started to come alive with birds feeding and trees and plants growing.  My patio garden has now grown into a lush bird sanctuary.  Over time I added two Butterfly Bushes that have grown tall and provide lovely purple flowers for the Hummingbirds and perching branches for the finches.  The! Pineapple Sage I planted provides red flowers that attract and feed the Hummingbirds.  I planted several trees in pots; an avocado, fig, orange, lemon and lime, and they are all thriving nicely and giving the birds additional places to perch.  It's pure joy to look out each morning and see my once barren patio very much alive and interesting with birds, trees and plants.

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Matt Milless, Schenectady NY

     Green Heron

 My little Green place is on the Hudson River

It is a neat place for birds because you get the best of water birds as well as general urban birds. 

In my photo is a marsh off the Mohawk from a park on River Road in Schenectady.  Lions Park, I believe.

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