Bird houses and feeders

Bird houses and feeders

Putting bird houses, bird baths, and bird feeders throughout your garden is a wonderful way to enjoy more of nature every day. Birds love beautiful gardens, and if you provide them with water, housing, and additional food - particularly in the winter time - they will continue returning to your garden for years to come.

Birds love water sources of any kind, and they particularly seem to enjoy moving water sources. Even putting a water hose out into the middle of the yard and turning it on low to medium stream strength is enough to attract many birds to your yard very quickly.

Bird baths are an easy way to provide water for the birds though, even if that water isn’t moving. You’ll need to choose bird baths made of natural materials such as stone though, because birds tend to be frightened by sparkling and shining objects. If you try to put out a metal bird bath, you won’t likely see many birds coming near it at all.

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Garden Tip...

Those who raise seed for the market take great pains to produce none but good, sound seeds, and in nine cases out of ten, where seeds fail to germinate and grow, the fault is with those who sow them, and not on account of poor quality of seed. This we know from experience.
~ James Sheehan
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If you want to have both a bird bath and a moving water source you can usually do so. All you need is a specialty bird bath which will buble water up in the center like a small fountain. The water doesn’t move very fast or high, so it won’t scare the birds away, and you’ll quickly see them flocking to it to wash and drink regularly. If you’ve never watched birds playing in water, you really don’t know what you’ve been missing. They’re hysterical!

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Garden Tip...

In planting tree roses received from the nursery or elsewhere, be sure and set them deep; the stem, for six or eight inches above the collar, should be under ground. If wet moss be tied about the stem and head of the tree after it has been planted, and the moss kept wet for a week or two after planting, or until the buds begin to start, it will, in nine cases out of ten, save the tree. The moss maybe removed after the growth begins. If planted in the fall, the body and top should be well wrapped up in straw.
~ James Sheehan
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Now, another important item to have in your garden when you want to attract birds is a bird house. You might want to put in several over time, so there will be housing for birds of all types and sizes. When you have just one or two houses, sometimes you’ll notice certain birds have become bullies, and are claiming the bird house all as their own.

And last but not least, be sure you put out plenty of bird feeders which offer various types of food. Different bird species will eat different types of foods, so by putting out a variety, you’re sure to attract plenty of different types to your garden. Putting out bird feeders in the spring and summer is not too important if you’re growing flowers. In the winter time though, the bird feeders are sometimes critical to helping your local birds stay alive during the harsh season.

Birds tend to flock back to the same living and feeding grounds each year too, so once you’ve started attracting some to your own garden, you can be assured you’ll see them - and possibly many more - for years to come.

Not everyone wants bird droppings all over their yard and garden of course, but they still want to enjoy watching the birds each day. An excellent way to address this problem is to simply create a bird zone in your yard. Otherwise known as a bird garden of course, you simply plant the bird flowers and vines into one section of your yard or garden, and keep your bird baths, feeders and houses grouped into that same area. If most of your bird attractions are restricted to specific areas of your yard, you’ll be less likely to have them exploring the other garden and yard areas.

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