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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

What Kinds of Birds Can I Attract to My Yard

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Your locale is the primary determiner of the kinds of birds you can attract to the garden. However, the population of birds changes from season to season. Sure, you’ll have resident birds, but you’ll also have seasonal and migrating birds. After you invite them in, take some time to listen and observe their behavior. You may get a better sense of the larger cycles birds are a part of.

Learn More: 25 Top Plants to Attract Birds to Your Yard

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David Mann, PhD earned his doctorate from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution by studying domino damselfish sounds at a Pacific atoll, and he was a faculty member at the University of South Florida. More recently, he is the Founder of Loggerhead Instruments which developed Haikubox, a tool that measures bioacoustics – the sounds that animals make to communicate. This consumer product is designed to automatically identify birds using their sounds. These boxes collect millions of birdsong recordings stored in a massive community science database which will be used for scientific discovery.

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0:00.0

The beat is brought to you by Hoselink. One of the first things I did when I moved into my homestead

0:04.9

is put a Hoselink retractable hose reel in the front yard garden 82 feet in and out. So easy to use, made watering an absolute breeze, but they expanded their line.

0:17.0

They have so many different products that attach to, extend, and improve upon the retractable hose reel that they're sort of famous for.

0:25.2

They've got a long-handled watering tool.

0:28.4

They have all sorts of different hose attachments.

0:30.4

And then my personal favorite, at least right right now is an oscillating hyper adjustable

0:35.2

sprinkler that I've been using to establish annual flower beds.

0:38.8

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0:46.7

That is hosling.com code the beat to get $10 off at purchase. We're back.

0:54.0

We are We are back with David Mann and we are talking birds again, but this time we're talking

1:08.5

about like bird migrations, bird trends, where are they at?

1:12.0

Why are they in my garden right now? And it's actually

1:15.8

super interesting for me because this is the year of birds for me. I've been noticing them for the first time

1:21.6

I know what to call them now. I was like, oh, that's a hoodedorial.

1:24.1

So for me, like one of the really fascinating things that I'm really looking forward to as a new birding person

1:29.4

is to see how that changes over year to year.

1:33.0

So like I mentioned earlier, I think I've had the ICU box

1:35.6

for maybe two to three months now.

1:37.6

And I love all the ideas that I've been getting so far,

1:40.7

but my background was in academic research and I love data. I love looking at

1:44.6

data sets and the app is very fun for me because it has like the spectral

1:49.4

analysis it has like the frequencies the time when are they coming through and I cannot wait to see that data next year to see, oh, that bird is actually only here from like March to July and then it's gone.

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