Welcome to Spark Lark!
My name is Stephanie Rose and I love everything birds.
I’m a long-time birdwatcher. These days I focus on raising my son.
In order to foster a love of birds and nature with my son, we’ve been revamping our backyard with feeders and bird-friendly plants.
Along with attracting birds comes striking a balance to keep birds out of our vegetable garden in a humane way. Squirrels and other garden “pests” are discouraged from our feeders as well.
Spark Lark today
Rose built Spark Lark around her own backyard: feeders, native plants, and a son learning to tell a chickadee from a titmouse. Her guides are still here, and still under her name.
Today the site is run by a small editorial team. We write for backyard birders across the U.S., not one region, and we follow the approach Rose started with: recommend what the birds actually use, keep it practical, and be honest about the trade-offs. You can read exactly how we pick products on our How we choose products page.