Date: 12/20/2003

Number: 1

One year ago my husband and I moved to 12 acres in Michigan, 10 of which are wooded. I have installed many bird (squirrel) feeders as well as shrubs and trees around the house to attract and protect visiting birds. We have downy, hairy, red bellied, and piliated woodpeckers. We also attract goldfinches, sparrows, cardinals, bluejays, indigo buntings, red breasted grosbeaks, titmouses, chickadees, red and white breasted nuthatches, warblers, wrens, towhees, juncos, thrushes....they all seem to pass through. We are quite close to Lake Michigan (about 1 mile). We seem to be in a migration route. Last week (Dec. 10), eastern blue birds were passing through. They heartily ate the red berries off my Dogwood.
> I installed a butterfly garden which really consists of asclepias and butterfly bushes. This past summer (03) my asclepias had monarch caterpillars on them. I picked them off and placed them in vented, see-through boxes where I fed them milkweed growing along the road.

Harbert, MI

Latitude: 41.9 Longitude: -86.6

Observed by: Patricia
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