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How Can I Encourage Birds Into My Garden?
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As above, is there a way to encourage birds into my garden?
I sat outside early this morning with a cuppa, and could hear the birds tweeting away, but couldn't see even one.
I've bought those little bird feeders in the past, but nothing. I've left bread out on the garden table (as advised) and had to pick it up days later when it was all soggy from the rain.
I don't have any cats, so not really sure why they seem to avoid the place?
I sat outside early this morning with a cuppa, and could hear the birds tweeting away, but couldn't see even one.
I've bought those little bird feeders in the past, but nothing. I've left bread out on the garden table (as advised) and had to pick it up days later when it was all soggy from the rain.
I don't have any cats, so not really sure why they seem to avoid the place?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Don't give them bread, it has naff all nutritional value and just fills them up.
Try buying some mealworms, they like those. But I fear trees are your most useful tool.
The downside is if you do encourage birds, you end up sitting outside for hours on "cat watch". Atm I am furiously protecting two blackbirds and their babies from my marauders (strategically placed super soakers seem to be doing the trick).
Try buying some mealworms, they like those. But I fear trees are your most useful tool.
The downside is if you do encourage birds, you end up sitting outside for hours on "cat watch". Atm I am furiously protecting two blackbirds and their babies from my marauders (strategically placed super soakers seem to be doing the trick).
There are loads of web sites that tell you how to attract birds into your garden.
Here is one as an example.
http:// www.rsp b.org.u k/wildl ife/wil dlifega rden/
Here is one as an example.
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Garden get more than their fair share of our birdlife because so many of our species naturally live on the edge of woodland, if not in it. A garden provides those conditions by accident, and in abundance, because it has shrubs and a few trees. So, provided the food is at a safe height and near shrubs or trees, it will attract the birds into view. The birds always know you are there, as you can sometimes tell from alarm calls issuing from the greenery as you walk outside. If you are behind glass ( or a prepared sit outside, motionless, for a long time) a lot will appear.
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