Welcoming Bluebirds With Julie Zickefoose - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach

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Welcoming Bluebirds With Julie Zickefoose - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - February 24, 2025

Feb 21 2025 | 00:27:43

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Show Notes

The sight of Eastern bluebirds rates high on my happiness scale, so I say bring them on. But what makes a place look like inviting habitat to these charismatic birds, encouraging them to maybe stick around during breeding season? And if your site meets with their approval, and a pair perhaps shacks up in a nest box you provided, how can you then be a good bluebird landlord? Those and other bluebird-centric questions are today’s topic with expert birder Julie Zickefoose, a writer, artist, naturalist and wildlife rehabilitator who lives on an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in the Appalachian foothills of... Read More ›

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