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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
I live in the Brighton Heights Neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh PA and recently certified my yard as a wildlife habitat. please feel free to check out my Blog and I hope you enjoy it.When I first bought my property the house was in disrepair and the yard was nothing but dead grass over grown weeds and garbage. It is now a habitat that provides wildlife with the four basic requirements needed to thrive. These are food, clean water, cover from predators, and places to raise young. I have provided these in my small space and will continue to improve on these elements of my garden. I am also an artist and I get a lot of inspiration from my garden. I am fascinated with tiny houses and enjoy cooking and music. I have two adopted cats from a rescue, and I have a one eyed cat that was a stray and needed surgery so I took her in. They are all house cats so they do not tear up my wildlife habitat. They do enjoy sitting in the windows looking at the other animals that visit my yard.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

My Pond and Back Yard are Coming Together.

I almost have my pond finished and the back yard is starting to look nice again. I have to fill in around the upper layer of the pond with dirt and plants, and I want to add a rock garden area filled with wildflowers. I already have plans for next year. I want to add a cement slab to put a picnic table on and add a small bog with a stream to the upper pond. I am hoping that next spring I can find some pitcher plants and some more cattail to fill in the bog. I am also looking to get some native fish so I can get rid of the goldfish. I am thinking of adding some darters and sunfish.
 My pond in progress.
 Building up around pond with dirt and plants.
 Green Sunfish
 Banded Darter
 Green Darter
Green Darter
Blue Breasted Darter
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