Fall 2008 Challenge/Contest

Participants sent us their photos, videos, and artwork of a Little Green Space that's good for birds. Maybe a brush pile, single tree, or potted plant. Maybe a place that provides shelter, food, or water.  And what a variety of wonderful entries we received!  Some gorgeous fully landscaped gardens, complete with water features...some minimalistic settings, some special places in parks, or drainage ditches (!)...we sent all entrants a Little Green Places for Birds poster, because everybody deserved recognition. 

 Click here to view the list of finalists:

Many thanks to everyone who entered our second photo/video/art contest, which ended on October 31, 2008.  Look over the entries, either 10 at a time, or the first 50 all together.  Are you leader of a group or a teacher?  Look through the entries with your participants and students...you will find no end of interesting topics of discussions about how birds survive and adapt to their surroundings.  Keep up the great work observing and documenting the birds around you! You could hold your own local Little Green places for Birds contest, even though ours is over for now.  Or enter our new Birds in Art/Art in Birds contest, running now through January 31, 2009. 

View 10 entries at a time
(click on each thumbnail)

1-10	11-20	21-30	31-40
41-50	51-60	61-70	71-80
81-90

View entries 1-50

 
An ivy-covered wall, flowers next to the stoop, a window box, a container garden on a rooftop or balcony, your school garden, or potted plants by a library gateway. Have you noticed a spot that birds like because it provides shelter, food, or water? 

All the entrants  received a copy of our poster, 'Little Green Places for Birds" . You can order a copy of our new poster.

  

Other prizes include:

•  $100 gift certificate from Johnny's Selected Seeds.  
  
• subscriptions to Mother Earth News, where you can learn about organic gardening, nature and community, sustainable building practices, urban gardening. 
  
• Bird and Butterfly Attractor Station from Ion Exchange Native Seed and Plant Nursery, where you can order native prairie grasses, wildflower mixes,   and  more.  Value of prize: $97.95, includes birdfeeder, butterflies booklet, 84 live plants that attract birds and butterflies.
• signed copies of Henry Cole's picture book, "On Meadowview Street", about how changes in one back yard helped birds and the whole neighborhood, eventually.
  

Marian Mendez was the winner of our first photo contest,  Beautiful Birds in Urban Places.  Browse the collections of her photographs to inspire your kids/participants to talk about about bird Silhouettes, Flight and Feathers, Attitude, Posture, and Behavior.

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