BayScaping helps restore wildlife habitats in small pockets, one backyard at a time. Existing vegetation can be supplemented with artificial nesting boxes and platforms. Even container gardens on porches and balconies, window boxes on sills, and vines along fences and walls help wildlife. Water, too, is critical for creatures to survive. A pond, birdbath or shallow dish provides a nice watering hole and rest stop for birds and small mammals.
Water also is an attractive focal point for a home or business landscape.
Trees that produce edible and nutritious nuts, seeds or fruits benefit wildlife. Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects nest and hibernate in cavities of larger trees during cold weather. Even young trees provide much-needed nesting spots for migrating birds. These birds, known as neotropical migrants, nest throughout North America, wintering in Mexico and Central America. These birds depend on large stands of undisturbed forest and continuous corridors of trees and greenways for survival.