Date: 5/7/25 9:19 am From: Jody Enck <jodyenck...> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Native Plants for Birds
Hi All,
As you know, the Conservation Action Committee of the Cayuga Bird Club has been working for several years to improve bird habitat on land owned/managed by the City of Ithaca and the Cornell Botanic Gardens down at Lighthouse Point (just north of Newman Golf Course).
This year, our committee is facilitating two new ways for any of you to be involved in this effort without having to pull invasive privet or erect rabbit and deer fencing!
*Opportunity #1 Donate native plants* Those of you who own your own home may have volunteer sprouts of native plants coming up in your yards that you may want to donate to our cause. We are looking for seedlings of native trees or shrubs that would do well in areas with partial or full shade, or herbaceous (non-woody) plants that would thrive in the same kind of area.
Examples (not a full list) of tree seedlings of interest -- Black Cherry, Yellow Birch, River Birch, Bitternut Hickory, Shagbark Hickory, Hackberry, Sycamore, Red Cedar, White Cedar, and Juniper.
Examples (not a full list) of shrub seedlings of interest -- Serviceberry, Nannyberry, Arrow wood Viburnum, American Winterberry, Hophornbeam, Witch Hobble, Elderberry, Buttonbush, and Bladdernut.
Examples (not a full list) of herbaceous plants of interest -- Joepye Weed, Marsh Marigold, Boneset, Lobelia syphilitica or cardinalis, Bottlebrush, and perennial grasses such as Elymus hystrix, virginicus, riparius, and canadensis.
*Opportunity #2 Foster native plants over the summer until we are ready to plant them in early fall*. Our committee will purchase biodegradable pots and will plant donated plants in these pots and give a flat (up to a dozen pots, for example) or more than one flat to volunteers who have a sunny spot outside (even an apartment balcony) where they can place and care for the flat of plants over the summer until early September.
Please contact Jody Enck (email is <jodyenck...>) if you want to participate in either or both of these opportunities.
Our next opportunity to get your hands dirty pulling privet and putting up fence will be Saturday May 17th from 9 to noon.
Thanks Jody
Jody W. Enck, PhD Conservation Social Scientist, and Founder of the Sister Bird Club Network 607-379-5940
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