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Plants

There's several different things that birds use plants for: shelter, food and nesting. Here's a list of good plants for each subject:

Shelter:                                                                                                                              
Eastern arborvitae
Oaks
Maples
Pines
Grape vines
Raspberries
Hawthorn 

Cleome/Spider Flower
Dogwoods



Food:
Serviceberry
Crab apple
Raspberries
Sunflowers
Purple coneflower
Hawthorn
Chokeberry
Cleome/Spider Flower
Black-eyed Susan
Grape vines



Nesting:
Oaks
Maples
Pines
Grape vines
Raspberries
Hawthorn
Birch
Forsythia
Lilacs

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