Passionate Slugs and Hollywood Frogs: An Uncommon Field Guide to Northwest Backyards Book

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
	Attracting Wildlife to Your Backyard	xv
	Black-Capped Chickadee	1
	Eastern Gray Squirrel	7
	Deer Mouse	10
	Townsend's Mole	13
	Opossum	16
	Pacific Treefrog	19
	Eastern Cottontail Rabbit	22
	Striped Skunk	25
	Rufous Hummingbird	28
	Dark-eyed Junco	31
	Sharp-Shinned Hawk	34
	American Robin	37
	European Starling	40
	Spotted Towhee	42
	Killdeer	45
	Northern Flicker	48
	American Kestrel	51
	Ring-Necked Pheasant	54
	Swallows	57
	American Goldfinch	60
	Song Sparrow	62
	American Crow	65
	California Quail	68
	Mourning Dove	71
	Canada Geese	74
	Red-Tailed Hawk	77
	Northwestern Garter Snake	80
	Garden Slugs	83
	Praying Mantis	86
	Grasshoppers	90
	Western Thatching Ant	93
	Ladybugs	96
	Western Tent Caterpillar	99
	Aphids	102
	Woolly Bear Caterpillar	105
	Earthworm	107
	Mourning Cloak Butterfly	110
	Daddy Longlegs	113
	Black-and-Yellow Garden Spider	116
	Meadow Spittlebug	119
	Yellow Jackets	121
	Ground Beetles	124
	Mosquito	126
	Bumblebees	129
	Pillbugs and Sowbugs	132
	Crane Flies	135
	Field Cricket	137
	European Earwig	139
	Dandelion	142
	Blackberries	145
	Rhododendrons	148
	Goldenrod	150
	Lawn	152
	Queen Anne's Lace	155
	English Ivy	158
	Scotch Broom	161
	Pacific Dogwood	163
	Foxglove	166
	Maples	168
	Red Alder	171
	Rainbows	175
	The North Star, the Big Dipper, and Orion	178
	Selected References	181
	Index	183