Birds and Blooms Extra – September 01, 2019

BACKYARD TALES A COLORFUL MEAL Butterflies are well-known pollinators, and they enjoy yellow, orange, white or purple flowers. E ...

SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 birdsandblooms.com 19 My husband and I visited Mount Lemmon near Tucson, Arizona, last July. High on the mo ...

20 birdsandblooms.com SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 It’s not often that I spot an owl in the wild, but on this particular morning, I saw ...

Last year the golf course just beyond my back fence was closed for extensive renovations. I went to the 11th green every day for ...

22 birdsandblooms.com SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 Being an avid nature photographer, I am always on the lookout for special moments lik ...

Two years ago, the Midwest experienced an irruption of painted ladies. I was seeing dozens of them nearly every day in late summ ...

My daylilies are beautiful—I love photographing them with my trusty Sony camera. Near the middle of August when the last of the ...

SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 birdsandblooms.com 25 TREAD LIGHTLY Watch where you step when there are bees around—most species nest on th ...

26 birdsandblooms.com SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 BACKYARD TALES American goldfinches regularly passed through my parents’ front yard i ...

SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 birdsandblooms.com 27 One of my favorite flowers is the reblooming bearded iris. I grow an array of colors, ...

28 birdsandblooms.com SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 BACKYARD TALES It rained the day I hung up this new bird feeder. I hadn’t seen many b ...

A hummingbird’s brain makes up around 4% of its body weight. It remembers every flower it visits! BRAINY BIRDS Hummingbirds are ...

30 birdsandblooms.com SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 ESSENTIALS NONNATIVESTAKINGOVER?Putyourfeedersawayorfillthemwithsafflowerseedsuntilth ...

Digitalsoundprocessingchip providesclearsoundandmakes speecheasiertounderstandwithless feedbackthanoldanalogtechnology Don’tworr ...

BOB KOTHENBEUTEL (2) BLUE JAYS, among the most familiar fliers in the Corvid family, live year-round in the eastern U.S. and par ...

SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 birdsandblooms.com 33 MEETTHEBOLD,SASSY BIRDS THAT LIVEN UP THE FEEDER SCENE ACROSS AMERICA. BY SALLY ROTH ...

WESTERN SCRUB-JAYS were split into two species—Woodhouse’s and California—in 2016. This striking bird is a California scrub-jay. ...

SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 birdsandblooms.com 35 FLORIDA SCRUB-JAYS are the only birds that live exclusively in Florida. CLEVER AND BR ...

36 birdsandblooms.com SEPTEMBER EXTRA 2019 LEFT: AGAMI PHOTO AGENCY/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; RIGHT: DAVE WELLING Pacific. Birds of the ...

GREEN JAYS are the most colorful Corvids. Spotting one requires a trip to the southernmost part of Texas. ...