Agreed 100%. Plant natives. There was a great webinar presentation
sponsored by WOS or a local Audubon group a few months ago. The expert
shared how chickadees need 6,000 to 10,000 moth caterpillars to fledge a
nest of chicks. Wow! And where do they get these? Mostly from native
alder, birch, and bitter cherry trees.



On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 8:13 PM Paul Bannick <paul.bannick at gmail.com> wrote:


> Interesting BUT if you want to our increasingly threatened native birds,

> garden as much as possible with the native plants that these species rely

> upon for food, nesting, shelter. Gardening with our native plants allow

> you to provide not just for nesting and wintering birds but also migrating

> ones.

>

> They also help retain our declining insects that birds and many other

> animals rely upon.

>

> We must do this for our native birds or risk losing them.

>

> Paul

>

> On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 1:29 PM Dan Reiff <dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>>

>> *Want to Attract Special Birds and Bees to Your Garden? Add Rare Plants

>> to Your Backyard, a New Study Says*

>> Researchers out of Dartmouth College found that 50 percent of urban

>> gardens in California counties have rare plants-;and, in turn, they attract

>> unique species of pollinators.

>>

>> Read in Martha Stewart Living: https://apple.news/AToTxWy4FTJGOmIXTHZfxrA

>>

>>

>> Shared from Apple News <https://www.apple.com/news>

>>

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