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CreatingBird-FriendlyHabitatatHome Interactive WorkshopSaturday, May 21st, 2016

Mitchell Branch Library37 Harrison Street, New Haven

10 am – noon | free & open to the public

Join Audubon Connecticut’s Bird-friendly Communities Coordinator Katie Blake for an introductory workshop on planting for birds at home. The workshop will start with an introduction to the importance of native plants to birds and offer practical and simple ways anybody can make a difference for birds from the backyard to an apartment fire escape.

Katie will also present a suite of online tools and resources you can access that will help you choose the right plants for your yard, apartment window or porch planters. We will spend some time outside to see various habitat examples and to see the principles of healthy habitats in action.

Participants will receive a native bird garden in a box- consisting of 4 native shrubs and 12 native perennial plugs for planting in your yard or apartment planter boxes. Email Katie with the subject ‘habitat workshop’ to reserve your bird garden in a box in advance, or join us without an RSVP.

Questions? Contact Katie at kblake@audubon.org.