Backyard Wildlife Habitat

A love of birds and wild life critters can be invited to take up a near residence if you know how to recreate a environment, in the middle of the urban sprawl. How can you get started?

The National Wildlife Federation has a wildlife conservation program that invites people to get certified to build ‘Wildlife Friendly’ yards. Can you imagine sitting in your yard or house and watching the antics ‘year round’ of wild life, right before your eyes? I have to say, this is a truly breath taking sight and experience that shouldn’t be missed.

The world is full of wild life and natural habitats indeed but there is still the problem for the misplaced and homeless. Yes, homeless wildlife. Helping to solve this dilemma gives us the opportunity to give back and provide for a fellow Earthly life form. Furthermore, helping them to survive with a small sanctuary to call their own can further their own existence and maybe make a new friend.

Providing a oasis for wild life is a opportunity for parents to learn and teach their own family members about the various inhabitants. One will learn the habits and quirks and observe funny or strange behaviors throughout the seasons. Sounds of these new neighbors also will carry to you and believe me, hearing birds sing, tweet and cheep is a beautiful sound to hear throughout the day.

Supporting the efforts to practice preserving wildlife conservation can be such a simple task with little effort and with minimal upkeep and maintenance. The work done this year will pay off with the new life that will arrive in your own backyard and enjoyed visually and by sound, it's almost magical.

The strategies used to create a sanctuary in your backyard require the following ;

– Water, birds, squirrels, chipmunks, frogs, and butterflies require water. Build a pond with a small waterfall to attract them. Do not chlorinate. Use stones to provide ‘sipping’ and ‘bathing’ areas. Also, provide bird baths will work too.

– Food, provide a variety of plants such as berry bushes, feeders with seeds, peanuts and sunflower seeds, variety of flowers providing nectar for butterflies and hummingbirds.

– Protection, plant trees and shrubs that will provide shelter for birds from predators and for nesting. Avoid disturbing nests if you find them.

Observe that these requirements are not much different from our own for survival. The simplicity involved in providing these basic necessities so crucial to life and so easy to provide will make for a great home project. You could become a new member of a bird watching society or wildlife conservation member and share any notes you have for educational purposes.

I am surrounded with wildlife in the Borealis forest of Canada and get to see, hear and watch the critters that scamper, chirp, tweet and cheep. Summers are the best as I will hear the full chorus of sounds during the day and even at nights. I will hear crickets, watch fireflies, swooping bats, moths , frogs, toads and haunting calls from our friendly neighborhood loon who returns every year to the same lake.

The wildlife that you attract will bring their own chorus of sounds, color, personality and antics. It is a experience that can be enjoyed each season and as each inhabitant becomes familiar with your tiny oasis, they will return year after year. Read related –> here and there.

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