Customer Reviews

The Bird Garden

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If you are a bird lover this is the book for you.This book explains everything birds need and want and how to attract them.There are bright colored pictures that my children even enjoyed, and went over with me.By following just a few of the steps I started seeing several new species of birds at my feeder including hummers!!

Why plant any impulse buy from the nursery when one can choose plants that are important as food sources for local birds? I originally checked this book out of the library but I want to buy one because it is so beautiful and useful. I will return to it again and again as I choose new plants for the yard and plan the garden. The book has suggested garden layouts for each area of the country, listing recommended flowers, shrubs, and trees for each area. It identifies birds common to each area and which foods each species prefers. It is lavishly illustrated. I particularly appreciate the color photographs of plants, which makes it a lot easier to spot them at the nursery. I've learned a lot about both birds and plants from this book.

Excellent book for setting up your yard for bird watching -- simply or more complicated. Full of great ideas.

I have used this book in the winter and the spring of 2002, and the results have been more than I could have expected. The book is well written, nicely illustrated, and well organized. If you want to have one reference book on hand, then you would be wise to consider this one.

I moved to Georgia 14 years ago, from Vermont. Talk about climate shock! I found THE BIRD GARDEN to be quite helpful in getting me started in Zone 7. It is certainly not a completely comprehensive book, nor does it pretend to be. The sketches of sample bird gardens based on the varying climate areas of the USA gave me an easy to follow template for turning my yard into a bird and butterfly sanctuary. The year I had twenty-six chrysalises on the side of my house, I knew I'd done something right. Creating a bird garden, after all, cannot help but benefit the other welcome species, too.

My (indoor) cats and I love bird-watching now.

Make it this one. It's full of detailed information on all aspects of creating a garden that will attract birds. It's well written and clearly illustrated.

As an avid gardener with an extensive collection of gardening and reference books, this is the most cherished and most consulted of any book in the house. It brings the garden to an interactive level and a site of much learning for adults and children! Inspiring and informative, The Bird Garden also carries the endearing beauty of presentation one would expect with an Audubon Society publication. Wonderful gift for gardener or birder alike. I keep a few copies on hand for birthdays and house-presents. Finally, with enough inspired souls...the birds and butterflies will stand a better chance in the world. Read all about it!

Great Book for anyone looking for ideas for natural landscaping to attract birds. There are great lists of appropriate plants to attract certain birds and specifics about birds and plants divided by region. Also a chapter of instructions to build various bird houses and feeders.

I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm looking for dried plants (whole) like millet that I can attach to a birdhouse. I can't find where theywould be at. Please Email me at strkravn@sopris.net with any info. Thank you!

Steve Kress is a great ornithologist and I greatly admire the work he's done in wildlife species and habitat preservation--but this book is not one of his best achievements. Basic and sketchy, at best it might give you a few ideas, but you won't be able to really implement them from this book--you'll have to get much better and more complete references. Look on the audabon web site or other birdwatchers web sites for ideas, and donate the money you save from not buying this book to audabon.