Creating Our Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Step One, Provide Food
There have been many wonderful comments from people explaining how they’re creating natural habitats for their wildlife critters in their personal spaces (usually birds, but not always) — some of whose populations have suffered a decline in recent years. It’s crucial in our modern culture/society to do so; It doesn’t take much to provide a wee bit of food, water, and shelter for these guys…. Besides, it calms the soul to view nature. ♥
Here, Nature Mom teaches her son how to create a backyard wildlife habitat, something anyone can do, in any environment — I had a great little set-up in a former apartment. Following guidelines provided by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), she details the creation and necessary resources for her local wildlife….
Today my son and I began working towards making our backyard into a Certified Wildlife Habitat, per the guidelines provided by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). I figured it would be best for my four-year-old if we only focus on one aspect of certification at at a time. Our focus today? Step one: Provide Food for Wildlife.
Certification requires that the backyard provide three food sources, selected from the following list:
- Seeds
- Nuts
- Berries
- Fruits
- Nectar
- Sap
- Foliage / Twigs
- Pollen
- Supplemental Feeders
- Seed
- Suet
- Hummingbird
- Squirrel
- Butterfly
This was a fun, educational activity to work through with my son. What in our yard is food for wildlife? What could we add that wildlife could eat? What animals might eat each of the items on this list?
We decided our yard provides nuts (acorns from the oak tree), nectar (the rosemary flowers), and seed (supplemental bird feeders). We…
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FeyGirl
Serenity Spell 
What a Neat Idea! I try to make sure the birds and bees are happy with the plants in our yard for their nourishment.
Ditto, I tried to select native (Florida) plants, and as they’ve grown I’ve noticed a definite increase in visitors!! 🙂
thank you!! for the informaion.