Bird lovers I have questions

[Marthe48]

24. Most of the plants and trees in the yard are original

Holly, privet, flame, flowering crab, serviceberry, lilac, wild grape, mulberry, and redbud, that I can think of. We planted an ornamental cherry in 2002, and an apple tree in 2017. I get some bees, but last spring, not nearly as many as this spring. The grass has violets, free-range grape hyacinths, dandelions, just a nice mix of green plants. It looks like some of the birds are generational visitors. I love seeing parent birds trying to teach their fledglings how to forage.

The people we bought it from said the yard was a jungle and they cleaned it out, but they didn't pull the roots, so several things, like the flowering crab regrew. Really pretty in the spring.

A little further out from my neighborhood are cultivated fields and I think that they are using the roundup type weed control. I am seeing fewer and fewer bugs of any kind. My daughter lives in this same county, but several miles away. She still has plenty of different insects and an isolated pond full of frogs.

Thanks for sharing the author's name. I'll see if I can get a copy.