Like everyone else who eagerly anticipates their arrival, I’m checking out my yard every day looking for my first “hummer” of the season. For the last two years, my first sighting was on March 31 - so it will be any day now! I’ve worked hard to make my rewilded Atlanta yard a safe habitat for wildlife, including hummingbirds. The following considerations may help you prepare to welcome hummingbirds to your yard this year. I can't get enough of watching our tiniest birds ma

If we want to consider the ecological function of our yard, a water source is a foundational habitat element. Bird baths and other shallow containers are the most basic ways to support wildlife, but adding a self-sustaining above ground wildlife container pond is an easy way to increase biodiversity by offering food and shelter in addition to water. Container ponds designed for habitat seem to be more popular in the U.K . than the U.S. where water features are usually orname