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Best herbaceous plants for attracting gray squirrels?
Hey, folks! Does anyone have any suggestions about which flowers and herbaceous plants attract gray squirrels most effectively? I know that eastern gray squirrels live in both the US and the UK, so I'm sure many people have had experiences with them. I'm also interested in hearing about other...- Avon Avians
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- backyard wildlife chipmunks flowers gray squirrel herbaceous plants mammals plants seeds shrubs squirrels trees wildlife-attracting plants wildlife-friendly yards
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- Forum: Mammals
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Landscaping ideas for birds and other wildlife? Which plants are best?
(Warning. This is a long thread.) Hello, folks! I'm posting this thread mostly for suggestions or information regarding this topic, especially based on experience. We recently moved from Avon, CT to Northumberland, NH. The state has a rather greater abundance of wildlife overall, although our...- Avon Avians
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- amphibian blue jay chipmunk flowers fox landscaping passeriformes piciformes plants shrubs squirrel suburban suburban landscaping titmouse trees urban biodiversity weasel wildlife attraction wildlife-attracting plants wildlife-friendly yards
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- Forum: Gardening for Birds
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My local wren.
I was determined to get a decent photo of my resident wren. The problem was that it spent most of its time under the hedge and bushes, rarely venturing out into the garden and never visiting the perch. I set a perch up very close to the wooden fence it sometimes sat on and eventually he hopped...- Denny Woodthorpe
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- flowers perch wren (troglodytes troglodytes)
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Waratah
A beautiful large nectar laden flower beloved of honeyeaters and pigmy possums, held on an emergent stalk, of the Sandstone country of Eastern Australia. Also difficult (but ever so rewarding! :) to grow in cultivation, requiring full sun, yet sheltering from summer heat, needing moisture...- Chosun Juan
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- blue mountains national park creekside flowers honeyeaters sandstone country waratah world heritage
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- Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
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Christmas Bells
'Christmas, Christmas Bells It's Christmas time in the city Ring-a-ling, hear them sing Soon it will be Christmas Day' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZeAImrvtqw Beautiful delicate red and yellow tubular bell flowers of the swamps of the Upper Blue Mountains escarpment heath and sedge lands...- Chosun Juan
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Purple-rumped Sunbird
This female was savoring the nectar of flowers on my neighbour's gold mohur tree.- S K Gudi
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- flowers gold mohur nectar purple-rumped sunbird
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Comma Butterfly
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- butterflies butterfly comma floral flower flowers insect insects nature
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- Category: Butterflies & Moths
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Twins...Could these be a sign......
....Of spring in the Carolina's? Or has just seeing the sun for a few days and warm temps got me all excited. These are only about 2 inches high but sure were colorful.- D. Taylor
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- flowers macro
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More everlastings
Another shot of the flowers on the Sheep Station.- Tiger1
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Guess what--flowers again
More roadside flowers- Tiger1
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Surviving in a hostile environment
Flowers growing in the dr, rocky area of the Kennedy Range, NW Australia- Tiger1
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A burst of colour
On the roadside again- Tiger1
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Flowers on an Orkney clifftop
Flowers-species?- Tiger1
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moon vine plant under out amazing night sky
center of the Everglades National park at 10pm- Frogguy2012
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- florida flowers stars
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"Egg Tarts, help yourself."
Spotted this while waiting for the osprey in Iona.- eastwood
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"Pretty, but not tasty!"
A sweet female hovers above the old tractor tire flower bed. From the middle of last August. The next visit only 4-5 months away. Blessed, by yearly visits, Dan- Dan Brown
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- female flowers free flight hovering rubythroated humming bird
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- Category: North America
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"I don't know, hum a few bars!"
Another female up in the green. The white throats shine almost as the ruby ones, I believe. Blessed, by all Archilochus anatomy, Dan- Dan Brown
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- close-up flowers free flight hovering rubythroated humming bird
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- Category: North America
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"Get this pink stuff off my feet!"
One of the sweet hold-outs, glistening her best. Trying to break it gentle to me. (heavy sigh!) Blessed, that a few hate to leave, Dan- Dan Brown
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- close-up flowers free flight hovering rubythroated humming bird
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- Category: North America
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"Why is he here every morning?"
More of the same. All I know, OK? blessed, by even the tiniest of blessing, Dan- Dan Brown
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- close-up flowers free flight hovering rubythroated humming bird
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- Category: North America
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Wild Flowers
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- Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
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Anemone Effort 1
Different angles and settings. An ongoing story. ;);- Digiscoper321
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Puffin in the flowers
Trying for a bird in scenery type of shot. Taken on the Farnes a couple of weeks ago. Bridie Age 14- woollyback
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- 1kf atlantic puffin farne islands flowers fratercula arctica puffin
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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White flowers
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- blackthorn flowers prunus spinosa
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