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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..
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