On this blog you've seen Joe Papendick's eclectic bird houses , courtesy of Lisa Boone of the Los Angeles Times L.A. at Home blog. Today we bring you the Garden Maker: Bird Habitat by Branch. Like its butterfly counterpart , the kit contains marking stakes and pencil, instructions, and eight types of seeds. The latter are Amaranthus, Buckwheat, Calendula, Larkspur, Liatris, Mexican Hat, Salvia, and Sunflower, all "known to attract song birds." Garden Maker: Bird Habitat image courtesy of Branch Sunflower is recommended as a good source of seeds by the Celebrating Urban Birds project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. To attract songbirds and hummingbirds, it is important to provide "a steady supply of food year round" such as berries, seeds, and nectar. Be sure to read Celebrating Urban Bird's Urban Gardening for Birds and Urban Greening web pages to learn more about creating "little green places" for birds in the city. If yo