Backyard Habitat Archives - Give A Shit About Nature

Windows kill a staggering number of birds every year. Feeders, if neglected, can spread disease through visiting flocks. Outdoor cats [...]

If you search for wildlife pond depth recommendations, you’ll find a lot of confident answers pointing to 60cm or 24 inches as [...]

If you want hummingbirds in your yard, the instinct is to look up a list of plants, buy whatever’s available at the garden cent [...]

A “weed” is a plant growing somewhere a human doesn’t want it. That’s the entire definition. It’s a mar [...]

There’s a small but thriving industry of decorative toad houses — ceramic mushroom-shaped things, hand-painted cottages with [...]

You can plant the perfect “dragonfly-friendly” flower bed and not see a single dragonfly show up. Plants alone don’ [...]

Rats at bird feeders tend to produce a specific kind of dismay in people — not just annoyance, but a creeping guilt, like somehow y [...]

The truth is, hummingbird feeders do attract bees — and wasps, and yellow jackets, and occasionally hornets if you’re particu [...]

Most people just live with it: that ugly dead patch of bare, hull-covered soil under the bird feeder. They figure it’s the bird [...]

You’ve done everything right. The feeder is up, it’s the right shape, you made the nectar yourself. And still nothing. Mo [...]