How to Attract Your Favorite Birds to the Garden
The best way to attract your favorite birds to the garden is to fill it with the plants they love. The list below discusses many of the birds you may see on Long Island and the plants that they are most attracted to.
American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Plants: Birch, spruce, fir, pine and oak trees, sunflowers, zinnia, asters, maple trees, white ash, box elder, grapes, roses, mulberry, serviceberry, sweet gum and thistle.
American Robin
American Robin
Holly, cedar, mulberry, sumac, blackberry, viburnum, grasses, serviceberry, persimmons, Russian olive, Virginia creeper, pyracantha, roses, elderberry, crab apple.
Back Capped Chickadee
Black-Capped Chickadee
Pine trees, birch, hemlock, viburnum, sunflowers, bayberry.
Blue Jay
Blue Jay
Oak trees, cherry, grapes, viburnum, blackberry, blueberry, mulberry, holly, sunflowers, dogwood, persimmon, American beech, crab apple.
Dark Eyed Junco
Dark Eyed Junco
Pine trees, firs, honeysuckle, birch, roses, millet, sweet gum.
Downy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Oak trees, mountain ash, dogwood, serviceberry, Virginia creeper.
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird
Dogwoods, sumac, cedar, Virginia creeper, holly, cotoneaster, Russian olive, crabapple, mulberry, bayberry, roses, pyracantha, blueberry, grapes, viburnum.
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove
Sunflowers, pine, spruce, grasses, millet.
Cardinal
Northern Cardinal
Holly, dogwood, viburnum, sunflowers, lantana, magnolia, pyracantha, roses, blackberry.
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird
Holly, cedar, sumac, viburnum, bayberry, dogwood, serviceberry, persimmon, Russian olive, huckleberry, plum, privet, honeysuckle, Virginia creeper, cherry laurel, cherry, blueberry, pyracantha.
Northern Oriole
Northern Oriole
Highbush blueberry, maple, serviceberry, flowering pear, blackberry, elderberry, grapes and honeysuckle.
Pine Siskin Bird
Pine Siskins
Pine trees, spruce, cedar, birch, maples, honeysuckle, sunflowers, American elm.
Rufous Sided Towhees
Rufous-Sided Towhee
Holly, oak, cherry, blackberry, strawberries, apple trees, bayberry, pine, blueberry, sunflower, crab apples, millet, grapes and sweet gum.
Summer Tanagers
Summer Tanagers
Blackberry, wild cherry, dogwood, grapes.
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse
Mulberry trees, pine, sunflower, oak, grape, crabapple, blackberry, Virginia creeper.
White Breasted Nuthatch
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Oak, sunflower, pine trees, maple, beech.
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