Creating a Bird and Wildlife Friendly Yard Sources for Information 2/26/20161
The Starflower Habitat Education Activities and Resources is a great place to begin. The site has a section of “Native plants for Wildlife” with lists of native plants for butterflies and for hummingbirds, natives that provide seeds and berries and natives that provide shelter. 2/26/20162
Native Plants for Wildlife Native Plants for Butterflies Native Plants for Hummingbirds Native Plants That Provide Seeds and Berries Native Plants that Provide Shelter Native Plants for Western Washington Gardens and Restoration Projects 2/26/20163
An Example Arbutus Menziesii Madrone An attractive broadleaf evergreen with a twisting reddish trunk and irregular branches with an overall rounded outline. The fruit is eaten by band-tailed pigeons, quail, flickers, varied thrushes, waxwings, evening grosbeaks, mourning doves, and robins. The flowers are pollinated by spring azure butterflies and bees. Madrone is a larval plant for the ceanothus silk moth and the brown elfin butterfly. The fruit is eaten by raccoons and other mammals 2/26/20164
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife Website - The Backyard Sanctuary Program - ( Information Includes: Attracting Backyard Wildlife Landscape Design for Wild life Woodworking Projects for Wildlife Hummingbirds and How to Attract Them Winter Wildlife Feeding Ponds and Birdbaths Butterflies and How to Attract Them Snags – The Wildlife Tree. 2/26/20165
Book Resources - Russell Link. 2/26/20166
Bringing Nature Home - How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants - 2/26/20167
What is a Native Plant Garden Without: Pollinators to Sustain your plants Feed your birds 2/26/20168
Xerces Society Guide 2/26/20169
Rhoda Fleming Hayes – Keeping your pollinators 2/26/201610