What We're Up Against
When I began landscaping my new yard here in Holiday and writing about it, I knew that it would be a long time before I saw much difference in the birds that visited me. It's taken even longer than I would have guessed, however. Although I have carefully landscaped my traditional-sized lot, my neighbors haven't and many of them have done essentially the opposite, This is what I'm up against - and what many of you are up against also. Throughout my neighborhood, yards have been stripped of any semblance of habitat for wildlife. There is no structure for cover and nothing to provide food for anything other than a mole cricket or chinch bug. The worst are those like this family that have eradicated everything that could be of some value and replaced it with gravel. In a former home and in a different setting, I used to drive down my driveway with some degree of anticipation - hoping I might catch sight of the fox squirrel or barred owl ...