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Lee M from CA
3911		Yesterday I found around 30 monarch butterfly caterpillars on my milkweed plants. my yard is located in a large urban area of southern california. the milkweeds are small so need to figure out what else they need to eat before entering the chrysalis stage. given the state of the monarchs in CA, this was an exciting find
Alec from CO
3908		We bilt a new house ( a two level) with a porch on the second levil ( in the front). In two weeks of moving in some bird made a nest under our porch! Then about one week later there were eggs in the nest (4). Then 3-4 weeks later they hatched! What a welcoming gift! (I hope they come back!)
Chris W from FL
3902		After nearly 17 years of thinking about it, I finally got certified! My yard consists of a natural bog that had been overgrown with non-native vines and invasive trees. Now it is balanced again, and the native species are returning in force. Especially noted, baldcypress, red maples, swamp magnolia, maidenhair and cinnamon ferns. Wildlife residents include river cooter, mosquito fish, water moccasin, scarlet kingsnake, and various mammals, lizards, and birds.
Charlotte W from CO
3901		I decided to apply for certification on the day last summer when my chokecherry was filled with about 50 birds gorging on fruit and I was wondering whose yard is it anyway? I might as well put up the sign and ask the critters if I can use it too. My small city yard in Central Denver has an amazing amount of wildlife. Over thirty years we have planted nine trees and many bushes which produce fruit and seeds and provide nesting places and cover in all seasons. Yesterday, on a cool November day, in a period of 10 minutes, our heated bird bath was visited by a pair of flickers, a robin, 2 grackels and about a dozen finches, many of them sometimes sharing it together. The leaves are gone but the Ginella Maples and the Green Ash are full of seeds that the birds and squirrels are eating. We are less than a mile from the Platte River and frequently see fox and racoons when my neighbor's grapes are ripe. I suppose I could also count the mice that try to get into this old Victorian House when the weather gets cold and the bees that are in the yard from first to last frost. I really don't care to include the wasp nests that show up from time to time but they don't ask permission to move in.
amber r from FL
3900		When winter time,birds will always try to find food and shelter. Especially in Florida. You usually will see mocking birds,but I saw a white owl,witch is very rare to see in south Florida. What atracted him was my back yard's mouse hole. A mouse hole is actualy a cage with mice figures inside.The birds go close to the cage. Hooked on a rope,the trap closes on there feet,then I take a real mouse put it in a very large containar,then put it over the bird.You study it then let it go.In my case the bird came out and sat on my sholder!I still have him today,his name is Peadro and he is three.
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