Family Photos > My new back yard > The Stroud Reserve

The trees in this patch of woods are much younger thus allowing a much thicker undergrowth. Most of the shrubs here are invasive species of huneysuckle and autumn-olive. Birds that like this habitat type are Gray Catbirds, Eastern Towhee, and Gray Catbirds. Yes, I said catbird twice as I have come to discover that the Stroud Reserve is the catbird capitol of the entire known universe. There are some many catbirds packed into the landscape here that they almost qualify as a colonial nester!