Birds and Blooms Extra

Even more of what you love from North America's #1 bird and garden magazine, celebrating the beauty in your own backyard.  Published on the months in between the Birds and Blooms magazine, Extra features vivid photographs, useful tips and expert advice to inform, inspire, and connect enthusiasts who share a passion for backyard birds and gardening.

Change Is in the Air

Enchanting Lilac • There’s nothing common about this popular shrub

Breaking the Mold • Lewis’s woodpeckers have a unique approach to finding food. Learn more about these colorful birds of the West.

Floral Fantasia • Go bold with these out-of-the-ordinary blooms BY JODI HELMER

Privacy, Please! • Eight easy ways to create a hidden backyard retreat

Garden Troublemakers • How to handle four pests that may show up

Wings of Change • Welcome back the harbingers of sunny days

Nature’s Symphony • Learn the difference between songs and calls, and whether birds are born knowing how to make their notable sounds

PLANT, Bloom, REPEAT! • Save time and money with expert advice for adding low-maintenance perennials to the garden

CRANE MIGRATION up close! • VISIT CENTRAL NEBRASKA TO WITNESS THE MAGIC OF THIS BIRD HOT SPOT

Ask the Experts • Get answers on tricky flower issues, bird behaviors and more

How do you deter chipmunks or groundhogs? • Home gardeners share favorite techniques for keeping certain critters away

Blushing Beauties • How many of these gorgeous pink blooms can you name?

Check It Out • Cross the Baltimore checkerspot off your butterfly bucket list

Caption This! • What’s going on in this male eastern bluebird’s mind?

FOR THE READER

Birds and Blooms Extra

Bursts of Sunshine • Get to know forsythia, an early blooming favorite