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Family Backyard   Backyard Resources How to be selective with your backyard guests Native Backyard Plants Invasive Backyard Plants ResOURces ONLINE Identify what you see Audubon at Home - Healthy Yards National Wildlife Federation – Garden for Wildlife Rain Garden Design and Construction Earth Sangha Books to get you started Insectigations, Cindy Blobaum Investigating Nature Through Outdoor Projects, Vinson Brown Knowing the Outdoors in the Dark, Vinson Brown Junior Naturalist, Kim Munshower (Friends of Hidden Oaks Nature Center) Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Douglas W. Tallamy A Citizen's Guide to Non-native Invasive Plants in Your Backyard (Fairfax County Park Authority) Nature's Playground, Activities, Crafts and Games to Encourage Children to Get Outdoors, Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield Sharing the Joy of Nature, Joseph Cornell Birds The Sibley Guide to Birds, David Allen Sibley National Geographic Field Guide To The Birds Of North America, 6th Edition Birds of North America, Kenn Kaufman Field guides by Roger Tory Peterson The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds, Richard Crossley Plants Newcomb's Wildflower Guide Wildlife Stokes Guide to Animal Tracking and Behavior The Butterfly Book, Donald and Lillian Stokes/ Ernest Williams Butterflies through Binoculars, A Field Guide to Butterflies in the Boston-New York-Washington Region, Jeffrey Glassberg Planting an Oasis for Wildlife, National Wildlife Federation A Guide to the Snakes of Virginia, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries