🍂Happy Fall! 🍂 If you live in metro Atlanta, please join me on October 17 from 10-12pm at Lost Corner Preserve for an in-person resource-rich talk exploring ways to nurture a safe and welcoming habitat for birds throughout the year 🐦The photos in the collage were taken in my bird sanctuary yard🐦 🍂🪾🌱🌻I’ll share a host of tips for supporting birds as the seasons change and give guidelines for ecologically informed yard practices as well as essential and creative habit

A big challenge for folks doing the right thing by nature in their outside space is there’s a defensive insistence that the landscape be visually acceptable to the folks who have toxic, unnatural landscapes. Cues to care is a phrase often used in native gardening circles to caution against making natural landscapes too natural. In a webinar Benjamin Vogt suggested this native landscape doesn't look intentional enough to please folks with lawns because it doesn't have flowers

We don’t often think of vines as a place for birds to nest. Yet some of our favorite songbirds are looking for exactly the kind of plant...

Every habitat element in my pocket wildlife sanctuary contributes to a more biodiverse ecosystem. Hermit thrushes for example rarely...

I’ve tried to maximize the edge areas of my small, semi-urban, rewilded yard by tucking away a few brush piles behind shrubs and trees to...

This year I’ve been documenting the joyful journey of a darling Eastern bluebird duo and their precious offspring finally choosing a...