Inviting Wildlife Into the Garden

You wouldn’t think your average backyard in the Los Angeles hills would attract nesting Western screech owls, condors, bobcats, deer, skunks, a pregnant squirrel named Ms. Bonita, a oneeyed coyote, white-crowned sparrows, Cooper’s hawks, and a large tarantula, but the Daily James, a popular blog and Instagram, recounts them all at thedailyjameswildlife.com. It all started when LouAnne Brickhouse gave her wife a bird feeder, thinking they might get sight of a bird while working from home. They hung it in their garden, and were soon amazed that a bird actually showed up. So they got more. “I thought, Here I am working in Hollywood, a place that’s supposed to be magic but it’s all fake,” says Brickhouse, a graphic novelist. “And yet there’s magic coming to my backyard because I’m inviting…

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Sunset (Digital) - 1 Issue, Wellness 2022

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