Having plants that provide both food and shelter is the most natural way of inviting them into your yard. Since birds are either insectivores or granivores (they eat insects or seeds), plant perennial and annual flowers that attract insects, and trees and shrubs that produce either seeds or small fruit. Trees, conifers, bushes, dense hedges and shrubs provide a safe haven and places to perch and rest, as well as possible nesting locations. Deciduous trees like Speckled Alder, birch, red oak, maple, white ash, American beech, hazel, crab-apple are good options. Conifers such as White spruce, juniper, Canadian yew, tamarack, white pine, red pine, eastern hemlock, balsam fir, cedar also provide shelter. Fruit bushes like Saskatoon berry, hawthorn, Japanese bearberry, blueberry, cherry, honeysuckle, dogwood, cotoneaster, winged euonymus, raspberry, current, winter berry (holly), blackberry, Russian olive, mountain-ash, white elderberry, golden elderberry, red elderberry, highbush cranberry are great for attracting birds.