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This year we continue the ever-popular series of trips to visit local gardens designed and planted to attract birds and butterflies. This year we visit the home of a Mandeville artist who recently acquired the adjoining residential lot and made it into a relaxing oasis for enjoying nature. Prior to this expansion, the gardens were designed to be both beautiful and to attractant birds. The additional land provided a natural canvas to expand her earlier work.
In addition to visiting this backyard nature preserve in the heart of a residential subdivision, we will walk to the nearby “Neighborwoods Project,” a 16-acre wetland wildlife preserve featuring nature trails and a large pond with a large population of Anhinga and many water birds.
• Easy walk.
Birds most likely to be seen:
The homeowner states, “All the birds listed below have been spotted in my garden as well as house finch, junco, flycatchers, pine, Prothonotary and yellow-rump warblers, bluebirds, red-crowned kinglet and year-round Rufus hummer, orioles. Once had a nesting Mississippi Kite and even an American woodcock so you never know what will be there.”
Wintering Birds: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Cedar Waxwing, White-throated and Chipping Sparrows, and American Goldfinch.
Resident and Breeding Birds: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Red-headed, Red-bellied, and Downy Woodpeckers; Great-crested flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Blue Jay, Purple Martin, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, Eastern Bluebird, Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, Summer Tanager, Northern Cardinal, Eastern Towhee,
Possible Migrants: Nearly anything can show up in backyards - raptors, warblers, tanagers, orioles, grosbeaks, and buntings.
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