Birds of Your State PDF Version
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Bird Man Mel’s Favorite Plants
Bird Man Mel’s Favorite Plants
PERENNIALS
Coneflowers (purple & yellow – Native variety) – Finches, Hummingbirds & Butterflies
American Bittersweet (Native variety) – Bluebirds
Cardinal Flower (wet areas – Native variety) – Hummingbirds
Columbine (early bloomer – Native variety ) – Hummingbirds
New England Aster (Native variety) – Monarch Butterflies & Songbirds
Butterfly Milkweed (Native variety – Monarch Butterflies, other Butterflies & Pollinators
Blue False Indigo (Native variety) – Bumble Bees, Birds, Small Mammals
Ninebark – Pollinators, Birds & Butterflies
Buttonbush – Butterflies, Songbirds & Beneficial Insects
Eastern Redbuds – Birds, Bees & Butterflies
Joe-Pye Weed – Butterflies
Beebalm – Hummingbirds
Drop Me Scarlet Honeysuckle – Hummingbirds
Trumpet Vine – Hummingbirds
ANNUALS
Cigar Plant – Hummingbirds
Fuchsia Basket – Hummingbirds
Penta – Hummingbirds & Butterflies
Lantana – Hummingbirds
Cardinal Climber – Hummingbirds
Impatiens (shade) – Hummingbirds
Geranium (Red) – Draws in Hummers – Not a great nectar plant
Coreopsis – Songbirds, some Butterflies
Salvia (also perennials) – Hummingbirds & Songbirds
Petunia (only open-throated red ones) – Hummingbirds
Zinnias (particularly red ones) – Butterflies, Hummingbirds & Songbirds
Sunflowers – Songbirds
Hummingbird Suncatcher Craft for Kids
Items Needed:
Glue Sticks
Parchment Paper
Markers/Water Color Paint
Scissors
Instructions:
- Cut the desired amount of parchment paper
- Trace all parts of the hummingbird onto the parchment paper. I used a pencil.
- Color each part with markers or watercolor paint.
- Cut each body part out.
- Glue the beak onto the head, then the head onto the body, then the wing, then the tail. The tail will be the only one to be glue underneath.
- Hang hummingbird in the window.
Origami Flapping Bird
Summer activity around the feeding station is like watching an animated movie. Adults fly down with their young for lessons in getting food and water, flitting from one antic juvenile to the next in a rapid-fire exhibition of maneuvers. Now you can experience the frenzy with your own bird. Using the diagrams and instructions below, turn a simple piece of paper into a complex pattern of folds for flapping.