Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

Attracting wildlife to your backyard, month-by-month projects for family fun

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Attracting wildlife to your backyard

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month-by-month projects for family fun

You will find dozens of fun, year-round projects that you and your family can do in your own backyard to make the world a little more welcoming to native flora and fauna. From easy carpentry projects to digging and planting to luring fireflies to your perennial garden, you'll find a host of entertaining and educational ways you and your family can help make the wild things feel at home

January -- Plan the year ahead -- Create new life for an old Christmas tree -- Talk it over first -- What is a niche? -- Live in harmony with wildlife -- Build a windowbox feeder -- Cook up recipes for the birds -- Bringing in the birds -- Keep a "guest book" for wildlife visitors -- February -- Make your own suet feeder -- Compost indoors with earthworms -- A look at the woodchuck -- Keep water open all winter -- Set up a temporary brush pile -- March -- Take better wildlife photos -- Start wildflower seeds indoors -- Build unique nestboxes -- Protect birds from windows -- April -- Rescuing wildlife : when do you need to? -- Create a woodland garden -- Develop a small-scale wildflower meadow -- Wildflowers for all regions -- Plant special hedges for wildlife -- tour your neighborhood's bird nests -- May -- Create a hummingbird garden -- Make your own hummingbird feeder -- A field guide to eggs -- Make a "natural" concrete water source -- Build a simple toad sanctuary -- June -- Create a butterfly garden -- Snake! Is it good or bad? -- build a dry stream bed -- Construct a squirrel feeder -- July -- Join the bluebird trail -- Build a simple bluebird nestbox -- Planning a minipond -- Choose native ornamental grasses -- Light up your night with fireflies -- Learn to identify the calls of the wild -- LIght the garden for moths -- Discover the garden at night -- August -- Want to feel like a chipmunk? -- Get an "edge" on wildlife -- A cricket thermometer -- Identify spiders' webs -- Keep some areas off-limits -- Plant a birdseed garden -- September -- Choose the best plants for fall color -- Take a close-up look at wildlife -- Keep your pathways natural -- Clean up with wildlife in mind -- Choose the right binoculars -- October -- Predict winter temperatures -- Don't waste your jack-o-lantern -- Building a bat box -- See the wonders of migration -- Build a butterfly hibernation box -- November -- Prepare the minipond for winter -- Build a winter roosting box for birds -- Make your feeders squirrel-proof -- Keep deer at bay -- Make a sunflower decoration for birds -- Keep your ears peeled for owls -- December -- Protect your plants during the winter -- Stock up on birds' favorite seeds -- Track wildlife in winter -- Decorate a Christmas tree for wildlife -- Make a Yule log -- Make a Christmas wreath with birds in mind -- Make your own backyard Christmas cards -- Assess the past year and plan ahead -- Directory of plants for wildlife gardens -- Trees -- shrubs -- Vines -- Grasses -- Groundcovers -- Perennials -- Annuals -- Resources for wildlife habitats