NATIVE PLANTS FOR THE BIRDS  

Our bird populations are declining at a disturbing rate.

Today there are 3 billion fewer birds in North America than in 1970.

if you are planning to plant more shrubs in your yard to help provide more food sources and habitats for birds below is a list of native plants you might consider.

Native plants have had 1000’s of years to adapt to their surroundings and therefore are very hardy, drought, and pest resistant.

 Here is a list – purple cone flowers, milkweed, cardinal flowers, trumpet honeysuckle, Virginia creeper, downy sunflower, cup plant, false dragon head, New England aster. 

Downy sunflowers attract chickadees, blue jays, goldfinches, and nuthatches 

 False dragon heads (obedient plants) attract hummingbirds.

 Cup plants attract chickadees, blue jays, goldfinches, and nuthatches.

Asters attract cardinals, chickadees, goldfinches, indigo buntings, nuthatches, sparrows, towhees.

The fibre from milkweed is used by American goldfinches to spin nests. 

Purple cone flowers attract black capped chickadees, dark eyes juncos, American goldfinches, downy woodpeckers, mourning doves, northern cardinal, ruby-throated hummingbirds.

In autumn Virginia creepers attract woodpeckers, chickadees, white-breasted nuthatches, thrushes, robins, and catbirds.

 Cardinal flowers attract hummingbirds which are attracted to red.


Native Shrubs

Pussy willows, chokecherry, service berry, button bush, red osier dogwood, bush

 honeysuckle, witch hazel, winter berry, spice bush, sand cherry, choke cherry, nine bark,

 pasture rose, common blackberry, raspberry attract cedar waxwings, yellow-rumped

 warblers, woodpeckers, northern mockingbirds, and American robins.






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