A Tour of My Bird Garden

I have frequently written about my small Bird Garden, which is just across the porch outside my glass office doors. It is a smallish, fenced-off area that was originally a dog run without anything growing except for a sickly juniper tree. Over the years I have transformed it into a lovely and inviting spot for local and occasional migrating birds, as well as rabbits, squirrels, mice and probably other critters. It is always changing, but here are some of the things you can see these days.

Quail block, with cottontail and male Gambel’s quail.

   Cardinal feeder, pomegranates, and

                        Garden Buddha

                                                                           

My beautiful pomegranate tree in the early dawn.

Here you see the suet feeder (left), and the finch feeder (center) over the grapefruit tree.

A nonfunctional turtle fountain guards the algae and yerba mansa in the small pond.

In the back of the garden, I have a young mesquite, and just outside a palo verde and saguaro

My shade garden, on the porch. The gate opens into the bird garden.

And here is the garden on Feb. 20 of this year, during the Great Tucson Blizzard.

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