Creating a Bird Friendly Garden

With little effort, you can turn your garden into a paradise for wild birds. Things to think about are accessories such as bird houses, bird baths and bird feeders, plants that provide food and shelter for birds and keep away predators.

A well stocked bird table should be at the heart of any bird friendly garden. You can buy houses for birds in many different designs so you should be able to find one to fit your garden. Traditionally, houses for birds, were made of wood, butNow, in other materials such as metal, plastic and glass also easier to clean and will last longer, they have come.

Make sure your bird table located a quiet place so the birds are not disturbed when they feed and put it lurking out of bushes and shrubs, where predators such as cats and squirrels can.

You can set all kinds of food on the tables of birds, such as kitchen waste, such as animal fats, cheese, fruit, rice, bread and peanuts. You can also finished bird feedermixed, some of which are designed to attract a particular species of bird.

A bird house is a great complement or alternative to a table bird, especially if not much space in your garden or just a balcony. Also think about where your bird house, so the birds can not feed in peace and predators depend attack.

You can keep food or grease or seeds is very easy to make your own from an old plastic bottle with melted fat mixed withThe seeds and other ingredients. A house for birds is a great way to teach the children involved and their nature and the environment.

A bird bath will provide much needed water for bathing and drinking, and is particularly important in summer, dry in winter, when the habitual intake of the birds' water can be frozen. It 'important to your bird bath regularly cleaned to prevent the growth of algae and parasites, which could be harmful to birds.

You should neverUse antifreeze or other additives to the water thawed in a bath of birds.

In recent years, improvements at home have meant the loss of natural nesting sites such as holes in buildings, particularly in urban areas, therefore, offer a window bird nest somewhere and shelter for birds in winter. It can be used a couple of seasons before the birds a new nest for breeding, they will fall, so you have time to get used to.

You can use different types of artificial nestsdifferent species of birds, you can consider some special "apartments sparrow," as these are among the bird species that has declined in recent years in Great Britain.

Plants will attract not only fruit for birds, but insects, thrushes and blackbirds from food. Plant berry-bearing shrubs such as holly trees, holly and flowering plants such as sunflowers and paper and leave the stems long to provide shelter.

If you blow up a problem with cats or even killThe birds in your garden, you can buy special cat deterrent in the form of ultrasound equipment, sprinklers, scented balls and protective fencing.

Turn your garden into a small nature reserve for birds to make the animal world to contribute to help local and get the pleasure of watching wild birds up close.