My Birding World

I assume that readers of this blog have an interest in birds. If you love birds, then it’s important to know that many species are threatened or changing their behavior due to climate change.

It can feel sad and overwhelming to think of human impacts on birds and their home. However, as individuals we can make small changes to help. This “Save The Birds” series will offer tips for things we can do to help! I will add these tips sprinkled in with my usual posts.

I open this series with a sign I spotted in a nearby neighborhood. While not specific to birds, nature is intricately connected and these efforts will help our bird friends.

Text of Photo:

“Did you know… that honeybees and butterflies are in trouble? If we don’t work together to save them, their populations may not recover!

The Berkeley School kindergarteners want you to know how you can help protect the pollinators:

• Don’t use pesticides to kill weeds or creatures!
  • Pull the weeds by hand
  • Plant plants that naturally help repel unwanted critters
  • Expect and accept a little bit of pest activity!
• Plant different types of flowers in your front and backyard.
  • Plant at least three different types of flowers in your pollinator garden to ensure blooms through as many seasons as possible. This will provide bees and other pollinators with a varied and constant source of food.
  • Monarch butterflies love milkweed.
  • Honeybees love marigolds and daisies.
  • Hummingbirds love foxgloves and other brightly colored flowers.
• People have taken up a lot of their natural habitat!
  • Make nesting sites around your house!
• A bee dies if it stings you!
  • We don’t want bees to die, so don’t swat at the bees so they don’t have to sting you.
  • If a bee is near you, just let them be. Let them do what they need to do. Stay still or move to a new spot and they’ll probably fly away.

Thanks for helping to save the pollinators!

Naomi and Haedan”