How To Create a Bird Habitat In Your Backyard Garden
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Written by: Cindy Robles
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 |
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If you wish to attract birds into your backyard garden, create an inviting bird habitat for them to visit.
Creating shelter in the form of shrubs and trees is essential to attracting birds to your garden. Shrubs and trees that provide fruit, nuts or seeds are very desirable to visiting birds. You can create artificial slopes and build low walls that act as grade changes. Walls can can be topped with low shrubs in which birds can nest. Thorny plants and blackberries also provide great shelters for your visiting birds.
In winter, broad leaf evergreens in your garden will keep them warm and cozy. Evergreens also provide a safe bird habitat, where birds can hide and feel safe from predators.
Create an inviting nesting place for birds by simply putting together 3-4 cardboard boxes and stuffing them lightly with a pile of dry grass. By providing pockets within the dried grass you create crevasses wide enough to allow unhindered movement of the birds.
A regular water source is a must have for birds. If you cannot provide a large source of water in your garden, a bird bath works perfectly and makes a great focal point in your garden. Place the bird bath adjacent to areas of birds shelter to make it inviting.
Bird feeders are very important garden accessories for your bird habitat. They encourage birds to return again and again for feeding. Many gardeners introduce supplemental feeding sources in their backyard gardens to fulfill birds' their nutritional requirements year round. You can use oil bearing sunflower seeds and also crushed egg shells. In winter, when food is scarce, birds love suet mixed well with peanut butter and cornmeal at dawn and dusk. Seeds which are rich in oil are always welcome and can be used year round in your garden bird habitat.
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