Hi all For our "birdscapers" or native bird habitat gardeners niche audience ...
Aside from our established bird habitat (details at end of message) we just signed up with USDA to convert 3.1 acres (of our 35 acres) to "pollinator" acres. Details about program can be found here: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/native_pollinator.pdf This program is designed to help sustain the "pollinator" population and I am sure it will grow our bird diversity as well! :-) We're currently at 95 species since 2002. Current "birdscaping" habitat: 35 acres CRP property (old agricultural fields being converted to native grasses). Fourteen feeders, cracked corn, whole sunflower, sunflower chips, safflower, white proso millet, nyger and two water sources. We've landscaped (bird-friendly) 12,000 sq ft within our fenced (snake-proof, yea, right!) backyard. Landscape (Nunn, Colorado): Hackberry - 3 Dwarf Rabbitbrush (Green/Blue) - 21 Austrian Pine - 8 Witchita Blue Juniper - 8 Spanish Goldbroom - 8 Radian Crabapple - 2 Fat Albert Spruce - 3 Canada Red Cherry Tree - 5 Dark Knight Spirea - 5 Straight Plains Cottonwood - 2 Blue Spruce - 1 Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany - 11 Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn - 1 Nanking Cherry - 3 Pawnee Butte Sandcherry - 5 New Mexican Privet - 3 Grow-low Sumac - 7 Western Sandcherry - 5 Lilac - 10 White Snowberry - 9 Russian Hawthorn - 1 Patmore Ash - 2 Thunderchild Crabapple - 6 Dogwood (Yellow/Red-twigged) - 15 Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
