Though my efforts likely aid only a few hundred birds a year, it makes me feel like I'm at least doing something to help stem their decline.

WSJ: Giving Birds a Refuge--WSJ Weekend Gardener

Notwithstanding a fair amount of cheating I used frozen puff pastry it took a day. (The crust broke.) I thought of how many cooks it would take to prepare a hundred birds for that one dish, and how many roaring fires and hand-turned spits to produce a hundred other dishes.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

"We have 53 species of breeding birds, 500 species of moths and several hundred species of plants. 83 species of water beetles have been recorded so far, " he said.

BBC: Norfolk - From scrubland to wildlife haven