This week's manager's picks...

Natural Shelter and Special Housing
Evergreens and hedges near your feeding location will not only provide summer nesting sites, but also places to roost out of the winter winds. If well constructed and sited, nesting boxes to fit species from wood ducks to wrens usually attract tenants interesting to see and a pleasure to hear. Another benefit is provided by a colony of martins, experts at clearing out mosquitos and other night insects. Because martins will also eat dragonflies, another enemy of the mosquito, swifts and swallows may be more welcome as the evening airforce.. More...