I always say that birds taught me to garden, as I watched their behavior here at my place, and added more of the plants and features they seemed to like and use most, and I have been blessed to have a diversity of avian visitors over many years. One place I’ve long turned for all kinds of information about birds is Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and lately among their many educational resources they’ve added the Garden for Birds Project, loaded with reference materials and inspiring webinars and more.

The project’s leader, native plant specialist Becca Rodomsky-Bish of Cornell Lab, is here today to tell us about its offerings, and suggest some of the more impactful tactics for making your own landscape into a garden for birds.

Becca has been gardening for more than 20 years. She draws upon her background in environmental science and  her native-plant expertise to manage her home garden and shape the offerings of the Lab’s Garden for Birds Program. Like everyone I know who gardens for birds, Becca reports not just an uptick in sightings of feathered visitors, but also in the positive impacts the practice has had on her life—not inconsequential effects like hope and joy. 

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