An easy way to make a bird bath without the expense of making a pond or just buying a stone bird bath is to use a plastic garbage can lid. You can use the garbage can it came with by placing bricks inside it or cut a T.V sized hole out of one side of it to make a very shaded planting spot. Either way would mainly be to hold it down with the lid up-turned over it. You could also place the lid on top of a large metal pot plant stand or just leave it on the ground. Check it regularly for fresh water and dump it out and rinse off if mosquito larvae or green algae develop.

	House Sparrow Passer Domesticus	The cute little sparrow who gets up in just about everything and anything of a roof that has tiny crevases to make a nest
	Blue Jay Cyanocitta Cristata	All over the neighborhood. Blue jays stick together to protect a young one fallen out of a nest and make quite a racket at potential predators.
	Northern Cardinal or Red bird (male) Cardinalis Cardinalis	We mostly call them Red Birds, they make a beautiful sound and are very common around the neighborhood.
	Northern Mockingbird Mimus Polyglottos	They flash their wings to scare up insects out of the grass, particularly a lawn in the process of being mowed. These guys can be a little meaner than blue jays and chase things like crows and grackles around, plucking out their tail feathers.
	Carolina Chickadee Poecile Carolinensis	They love it when things are very bushy like a nice thick hedge or overgrowth, something a cat can't get through too easily.
	Ruby Throated Hummingbird Archilochus Colubris	Just one of a variety of hummingbirds who fight over our hummingbird feeders.
	Mourning Dove Zenaida Macroura	They make a gentle cooing sound and eat wild seeds.
	American Robin Turdus Migratorius	Robin's migrate through here and are a common sight.
	Great Tailed Grackle (male) Quiscalus Mexicanus	Grackles migrate through here in droves. Every spring and fall they leave/return like Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'. They hang around in more sparse numbers just about everywhere, going after insects after a freshly cut lawn, all over parking lots, garbage bins, then they mass together in the trees for the migration and make allot of racket like a billion wind chimes. When they're flying off for it it looks like a big drove of dots like a mass school of fish or bats leaving a cave.
	American Crow Corvus Brachyrhynchos	Crows are very common, more often hanging around parking lots with sea gulls and grackles.
	Red Tailed Hawk Buteo Jamaicensis	Very common to spot or hear their cries, the mix of woods and pastures gives them their most ideal environment.
	Ladder Backed Woodpecker Picoides Scalaris	Sometimes a very rare sight but woodpecker's do come into my backyard to look for insects.
	Western Screech Owl Megascops Kennicottii	These little owls come around my house all the time. They can be heard almost every night if things are quiet enough. I'm hoping one or two owls in particular nest in one of my bird houses.
	Belted Kingfisher Ceryle Alcyon	Can be found anywhere with the potential to fish
	Cow or Cattle Egret Bubulcus Ibis	This is our version of a cow bird, snowy and great white egrets often get mistaken between the cow egret.
	Great Blue Heron Ardea Herodias	I see them every now and then, particularly one along my street who flies back to their nest in the evening mostly taking the same route. I think the one in particular might be living on refinery grounds.
	Kildeer Charadrius Vociferus	Sometimes mixed up as a sandpiper, these and sandpipers will leave the beach or marshes for a tour of the neighborhood and occasional parking lot.
	Turkey Buzzard Cathartes Aura	In the neighborhood it's more like just passing by, easier to spot them looking for road kills driving into the country.