How Do We Create Bird-Friendly Yards &
Communities?
Join Redwood Region Audubon Society for
a
Bird-Friendly Yard Tour
Saturday, August 17, from
12:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m. in Eureka.

Visit six private Eureka yards and Lost Foods
Native Plant Nursery at Redwood Acres. Get inspired to make your yard
more bird and wildlife friendly
!
Birds offer us a richer, more
beautiful, and healthful place to live. Each community has a unique
ecological and cultural story to tell. Creating bird-friendly
communities is Audubon’s commitment to the sustainability of our
urban, suburban, and rural places. Over the past century,
urbanization has taken, fragmented, and transformed ecologically
productive land with sterile lawns and exotic ornamental plants.
We’ve introduced walls of glass, toxic pesticides, and domestic
predators. The human-dominated landscape no longer supports
functioning ecosystems or provides healthy places for birds.
We can
restore and reconnect these places. We can reestablish the ecological
functions of our cities and towns. We can provide an essential, safe
habitat for birds. With simple acts of hope, everyone can help make
their community bird-friendly.
See what you can do from simply adding
the best plants in pots to your patio and deck, to bigger endeavors
such as reducing your lawn. Visit a diversity of beautiful and
enchanting residential yards that also provide habitat that benefits
birds and other wildlife. Learn which native plants provide seeds,
berries, nectar and insects. Discover different types of vegetation
that provide shelter, structure, as well as, materials and habitat
for nesting. Feeders, water features and cat enclosures are included
in some of the yards.
The yard owners are excited about
sharing their stories. On the tour you'll visit:
Spacious "catios," affordably built, that keep cats safe from cars and predators, and birds safe from cats.
This is the first in a series of
community yard tours being planned around the redwood region. See
examples, collect resources, share stories and visit with some of
your neighbors!
Participants will receive the addresses
of the yards when they purchase a $10 ticket.
Funds raised will support Redwood
Region Audubon Society’s ongoing educational programs and habitat
conservation efforts.
Tickets are available
HERE
or mail checks to RRAS, P.O. Box 1054, Eureka, CA 95502 (please
postmark by August 12!) Tickets may also be purchased on the day of
the event at Lost Foods Native Plant Nursery located at Redwood Acres
in Eureka.
Volunteers are needed as greeters at
the yards. Responsibilities include working a 2 or 4 hour shift,
checking tickets and providing printed information to visitors. For
more information please contact Susan Penn at 707-672-3346 or email
susanpenn60@gmail.com.