November 8th, 2007
10 Ways to Attract Wildlife to Your Porch, Deck, or Backyard
Want to attract cheerful birds, colorful butterflies, or dancing, friendly bees? Try any combination of these simple steps to attract wildlife to your porch, patio, deck, balcony, or backyard.
- Provide water via a simple pedestal birdbath
- Provide hulled sunflower seeds in a feeder attached to your window
- Grow dwarf sunflowers in a container with moisture-capturing soil to attract birds
- Provide shelter via a warming roost, like decorative, hanging roosts
- Place a pre-potted hummingbird-favored or butterfly-favored annual from your local nursery
- Offer drip-free suet in a special feeder
- Buy a can of friendly solitary bees
- Mount a corn cob feeder for squirrels
- Hang a caged tube feeder from a shepherd's hook and fill with hulled sunflower seed
- Set out fruit on a fruit feeder for birds and butterflies

