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For the last two years of his life, my dad lived in a Yakima nursing home. His room faced a courtyard garden where many of the residents hung bird feeders.
One January day, my husband and I set off on a walk around our neighborhood. The temperature was a bone-chilling negative 19 degrees and although we worked to get our
Grow your garden: Design a bird-friendly landscape
Grow your garden: Design a bird-friendly landscape
Adding these 13 plants, not bird feeders, could save the birds Jeanette Marantos © (Tammy Kokjohn) A Lawrence's goldfinch. Finches are very social feeders and tend to be hit by diseases at backyard feeding stations, hence seeding plants are a safer food source. (Tammy Kokjohn) Attention wildlife fans: If you want to help support wild bird populations, you might want to rethink the bird feeder. Because of a vicious salmonellosis outbreak this winter, wildlife officials in multiple Western states issued warnings earlier this year that so many birds were dying, the safest plan...