Planting for Birds – Summer Session

While habitat loss poses challenges for birds and wildlife worldwide, creating backyard habitats offers a solution! In this four-part series, participants will learn about ways to improve backyard habitats throughout different seasons. Each program will focus on the seasonal needs of birds and specific ways to support them, using examples from the sanctuary grounds of the RTP Estuary Center in Old Lyme. Each session will include an indoor presentation and an outdoor exploration of the sanctuary grounds and gardens, accompanied by handouts that list the plants mentioned for each session.

Summer in Connecticut means birds are breeding, increasing the need for insects and caterpillars to provide crucial protein for chicks. Learn which plants will host essential insects for hungry fledglings, as well as those that produce seeds for finches and nectar for hummingbirds and pollinating insects.