When I first started to garden, I began to see more wildlife visit my home. I began to see more birds, butterflies, and bees. I saw many birds use my fruit trees to eat, worms come up after a heavy rain, and hundreds of bees that swarmed my lime tree when it was flowering.
Western Tanager, Vol. 86 No. 6, July–August 2020
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
WINGING IT—Discovering the Caribbean Birding Trail, Part II, Dominica — The Rare Parrots' Paradise | By Robbie Lisa Freeman
BIRDS OF THE SEASON — June 2020 | By Jon Fisher
YOUNG BIRDERS—Charismatic and Clever: The Cactus Wren (campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) | By Dessi Sieburth
OUTDOOR EDUCATION—Experience & Perspective | By Cindy Hardin
INTERPRETING NATURE—Making Connections Between Birding and Food Gardening | By Ingrid Carrillo
CONSERVATION CORNER—Rio de Los Angeles State Park Riparian Breeders | By Andy Birch
FROM OUR READERS
Top Ways To Preserve Nature While Hiking, by Rachel Gaffney
Photo Essay — India Journal: December 2019, by Rustom Jamadar
The Fledgling, by Brenda Rees
Owls Nesting in Our Yard, by Janice Rayman
Reclaiming Ourselves Through Nature, by Danny Humphrey
Two Robins in a Birdbath, by Janine Soucie Kelley
No Sparrows, by Annie Margis
Birding Notes from the Ebell Club 1917, by Judith Thompson
POEM: Ballona Stories, by Joyce Karel