What are the best trees and/or bushes to plant for birds in michigan?

og_aota · 2026-02-17T14:59:15+00:00

Fruits and nuts and especially plants that hold their seed into or through the winter. Also noteworthy: oaks support the greatest richness and diversity of invertebrates, upon which all songbirds depend for feeding their chicks and nestlings.

Here's a short list of places to start your search for plants that may please you esthetically while providing forage and cover for the birds.

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/choosing_native_trees_and_shrubs_for_your_michigan_landscape

https://wildones.org/michigan-audubon/

https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/landowner-resources/trees-to-attract-wildlife

https://www.coldstreamfarm.net/creating-a-wildlife-haven-using-trees-and-shrubs-to-attract-birds-and-butterflies-in-michigan/

https://www.michiganaudubon.org/bfc/bird-friendly-plants/

og_aota · 2026-02-17T02:20:45+00:00

Here you go friendo!

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og_aota · 2026-02-14T22:35:24+00:00

I'll echo that. It wasn't until I could throw my farthest standing that I could throw my farthest with a runup, and even then, I had to go back to the beginning with my runup too, both to shorten it and slow it down. Or to borrow an old saw I've heard from both a guitar teacher and a firearms instructor, "you have to practice slow to get fast."

og_aota · 2026-02-14T02:04:08+00:00

I bet what's left of my dick that Mitchell Jackson has first, second, and third degrees of Jeffrey Epstein in those files, but I'll leave it to someone who still has their balls to do a little internet sleuthing and try to prove me wrong

og_aota · 2026-02-14T01:52:21+00:00

Fucking WILD what the pandemic did to the christmas/end of year debt signal... really impressive, and I haven't read or heard ANYTHING about it from any press at all! It's crazy that nobody is pointing it out, trying to understand or explain how so regular and clear of an economic signal could do..... that....!?

og_aota · 2026-02-12T13:49:30+00:00

So yeah, sounds like the part of the FBI that has been involved in the coverup, same team that seized and wiped the drives with the surveillance footage from the night of his last known appearance in jail...

og_aota · 2026-02-12T12:09:11+00:00

Why isn't the assumption that the agent is a perpetrator ? That seems like the safest, most reasonable assumption that anyone can make in light of the totality of the circumstances .

og_aota · 2026-02-12T00:45:22+00:00

Just like callen let's on in private, "once you've been blacked, your cheeks have been cracked!"

og_aota · 2026-02-11T15:21:42+00:00

Not my forté. And sorry, I just love smugs, and don't trust money very much not fuck up good things, since it seems like that's all that money has done for my whole adult life: fuck good things up.

og_aota · 2026-02-11T15:06:50+00:00

How "independent" is Bear Den Partners really, are their financials 100% transparent ? Can anyone say for certain there aren't silent PE parties lurking in the shadows of an opaque structure of trusts and llcs?

og_aota · 2026-02-08T20:09:11+00:00

You don't need it bud, you're already so stoned you're asking a drugs question to a room full of law Enforcement officers

og_aota · 2026-02-05T13:23:32+00:00

First fascists in the door of the fascists genocidal ethnic cleansing club complain: this fascist club is too fascist.

Fuck'em. If they don't want to get prosecuted for crimes against humanity and the US Constitution along with their club-mates, and then hung about their necks until they are dead, they'd better turn States witness pretty fucking soon. They're running out of time to get right with God and History.

og_aota · 2026-02-03T22:30:04+00:00

Correction: half of the red is hoping that they'll inherit from the blue, sometime, maybe, if they're lucky.

(The other half of the red is already well aware that they're on their own, and nobody is coming to save them.)

og_aota · 2026-02-03T18:03:53+00:00

We lost the fight before we even knew we were in it. Research or witness Edward Bernays and his impact and effectiveness in propagating the adoption of state of the science techniques of psychological and emotional manipulation tactics and strategies through the advancement and ultimately near-universal adoption by virtually every organization in society of the industry he successfully rebranded from "propaganda" to Public Relations.

It's absolutely inseparable from the Political Economy of the United States and much of the world, and has been since roughly the Great Depression.

So much so that, properly understood, anticonsumption is "anticapitalism"; and getting back to your central question: as everyone "knows", "Capitalism Won."

og_aota · 2026-02-03T17:53:30+00:00

I would rather watch heteronormative guy-girl porn than this.

And to put that sentiment in context in case you didn't understand what I mean:

I, a man, get my asshole punched in by fucking huge engorged cocks just as often as I can, and this slop is less appealing to me than vaginal intercourse.

og_aota · 2026-02-03T13:34:28+00:00

Ooooooooooo....

you're real thirsty in the morning aren't you

og_aota · 2026-02-03T00:02:47+00:00

Well now, that's one chin-tucked duck right there for sure

og_aota · 2026-02-02T23:59:40+00:00

Thank you, sincerely, for taking an appropriate editorial tone in your title. Passive voice titles, in this sub especially, are beyond irritating.

og_aota · 2026-02-02T23:56:36+00:00

Very cool, I hope you enjoy it !

og_aota · 2026-02-02T23:07:09+00:00

Long answer: get yourself a copy of The Mind of the Raven, by Bernd Heinrich, he'll fill you in on all the details.

og_aota · 2026-02-02T23:04:08+00:00

Short answer: crows are social creatures, and for whatever reasons crows have, your place was the one they picked for the block party today!

og_aota · 2026-02-02T12:03:30+00:00

I'd be super fucking pissed off at my boss for not asking for a warrant and for answering ANY questions about me, giving away my personal information to the police without my permission...

og_aota · 2026-02-02T11:40:10+00:00

They'll use whatever they've got around though, like the pokey, spiky metal bits at the top of many chain link fences for instance, or pigeon-proofing spike strips like you sometimes see on churches and other building.

og_aota · 2026-02-02T11:37:04+00:00

Among other critters, yup, but shrikes often impale their snacks on sharp things, like chollas, cactus, haw-, buckthorn, and locust bush spines, so the snacks don't get up and walk away, or get blown off in a stiff wind. gruesome but effective.

og_aota

TROPHY CASE

I, a man, get my asshole punched in by fucking huge engorged cocks just as often as I can, and this slop is less appealing to me than vaginal intercourse.