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Birds are fascinating and inspiring. When you hear a song from the trees or catch a glimpse from your window or patio, it's a moment of delight and excitement. Birds are a daily connection to nature and also provide essential services in your neighbourhood and across the Americas, including seed dispersion, pollinating plants and helping to control insects. They add beauty, sound and colour to our lives, and also provide countless moments of enjoyment.

The first step towards attracting birds to your yard is picking a location to focus your efforts. You'll want to place feeders, bird baths, and other offerings where you can enjoy watching them. You'll also need to make sure there is sufficient greenery and cover nearby so that birds feel safe enough to explore.

As pollinators, bees play a part in every aspect of the ecosystem. They support the growth of trees, flowers, and other plants which serve as food and shelter for creatures large and small. Bees contribute to complex, interconnected ecosystems that allow a diverse number of species to co-exist. Without bees, our gardens and landscapes would be bare and our plates empty.

Boost your garden's productivity by providing a Mason Bee House for peaceful, non-stinging bees. As bee populations struggle, home gardeners can play an important role in attracting bees and other pollinators.

Not only do butterflies add beauty and colour to our gardens, they also play a very important role in increasing biodiversity - the variety of plants, animals and micro-organisms and their ecosystems. Butterflies are also great pollinators, helping fruits, vegetables and flowers to produce new seeds.

Butterflies are fussy eaters, so establishing a perineal garden with a good variety of plants is very important. Milkweed is a must have for all butterfly gardens.Try to minimize chemical use in your gardens, as pesticides and chemicals are lethal to all insects, including caterpillars.

Bats are an extremely important part of our environment, yet are in serious decline due to years of unwarranted human fear and persecution. Bats are one of humanity's most valuable allies in the fight against field and garden pests and also in slowing down the spread of insect-borne diseases. Bats eat a large number of flying insects and are the main nighttime predator of mosquitoes.

A single little brown bat can eat between 600 and 1200 mosquitos an hour and a typical colony of big brown bats can protect local farmers from the extortionate attacks of 18 million root-worms each summer. Therefore setting up a bat house on your property not only helps and houses bats, you'll also be helping yourself.