• Bird Accessories,  Bird Houses,  Uncategorized,  Wood Birdhouse

    No Need to Clean Out a Wood Birdhouse Right Now!

    October 23, 2009 /

    wood birdhouse

    Wish I’d seen this info a bit earlier….

    like before removing the nest from my Bluebird house a few weeks ago! They say it’s called “Spring Cleaning” for a reason, and not wise to clean houses in fall. By leaving nesting materials in a wood birdhouse over cold winter months, it helps to reduce bird parasites by allowing the birds’ own natural defenses against them to develop.

    Woodpeckers and others who do not gather their own nesting materials may be enticed to these nesting sites as well. So, next time you’re ready for spring cleaning…wait until spring!

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    Albatross Chicks and Deadly Plastic

    October 23, 2009 /

    A Must Read! From the Surf Rider FoundationPlastics at the Gyre-Albatross Chick

    http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

    Please click this link to view all photos

    Midway
    Message from the Gyre

    These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

    To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

    ~cj, October 2009

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  • Bird Accessories,  Bird Houses,  Decorative Bird Houses,  Uncategorized,  Unique Birdhouses,  Wood Birdhouse

    Good Wood Birdhouses!

    October 22, 2009 /

    wood birdhousesBelieve it or not, this is a real bird house meant for feathered friends!  It features a twist off base for yearly clean-out, proper ventilation, and entrance proportioned for wrens, chickadees, and other small songbirds.

    What makes this wood good? The Fat Cat and other great wood birdhouses are hand crafted from fast growth, renewable, albesia wood. The paints and finishes used are non-toxic, so they’re good for birds and good for the environment.

    Help cavity dwelling birds in your yard to thrive and flourish by providing proper nesting sites…they don’t have to be  boring boxes to be effective!

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