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Originally Posted by Topspinmo
I miss my birds in oklahoma. I had purple Martin colony and several bird feeders on 1 1/2 acres. My colony has over 60 pairs of purple martins and bird feeders attracted over 20 different species of birds and lot more during migration. I also had lots of hummingbirds and blue birds nesting off the back porch. Even had screech owls nesting out back in box I made for them.
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Several Summers ago I heard screech owls in my back yard at night. I built the appropriate sized nesting box for them, but they never took it. Then one Sunday when we came home from church I saw hundreds and hundreds of honey bees swarming around the box. They took it over, and we had bees in our back yard for several years.
I have repeatedly hung hummingbird feeders, but have never been able to attract them.
Our greatest success was attracting butterflies of all kinds. We planted a wide variety of flowers known to attract butterflies and were graced with their beauty for several years. There was a slight inconvenience when a Chrysalis was deposited on the doorknob of our front door and we could not use it until it hatched.