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Attracting birds to your garden    <\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
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Birds Nest                                   Birds Nest                                       Birds Nest<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is nothing better than spending mornings enjoying birds hopping in and around your garden and listening their beautiful sounds. It can give you hours of pleasure and can become very addictive, especially when you see them playfully flitting around feeding, chirping all in your very own garden. <\/p><\/div>\n

Problem over recent times.<\/strong>
It is widely stated that our natural habitats are being taken over by surbuban sprawl  reducing the main ecological attractors like secure environment, water, food, and shelter. <\/div>\n
Tips on how to attract birds. <\/strong><\/div>\n
Attracting birds can very easy to do and don’t have to take much time, effort of money.  Here are a few tips on how to help attract and keep birds visiting your garden.

Tip 1: Attracting birds to your garden.<\/strong>
•Plant bird attractive indigenous trees, shrubs and bushes
•Plant wall and fence creepers to create a good place to hide and feed from.
•Have a little lawn. This is ideal for encouraging larger birds to feed on worms.
•Plant indigenous of all sizes and diversities to encourage insects to stay which is vital for feeding of birds. Think aso of plants that yield berries, seed and fruit.
•Leave parts of the garden to be wild  This will allow cover and shade for insects and feeding birds. Also, try and retain some dead headed plants for feed through autumn\/winter months. (I know, any excuse to leave it)
By having cover, you can place your wildlife camera in several hidden locations.<\/p>\n


Tip 2:Water for attracting birds to your garden.<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n

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Water bath for Birds                                                 Water Bath for Birds <\/strong><\/div>\n
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All birds need to drink regularly. They often have to fly for many meters or miles for a good drink to re-hydrate them and keep their feathers in good condition.
Try to:
•Create a bird bath with varied depth for various sized birds. Throw in some rocks for them to perch on.
•Place bird bath near cover, so they can hop onto branches easily. But not too close that cats can pounce on them.
•Try to have moving water. Birds seem to be attracted to moving water.
•Try to keep water clean.<\/p>\n

Tip 3: fFod for attracting birds to your garden.<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n

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                                                                                 Bird Feeder <\/strong><\/p>\n

Food is very important and can also be a great way to enjoy them too. Most birds eat most types of nuts, seeds, fats and fruit. However, here are a few tips for you to try:
•Try to keep all feeding stations off the ground. Although, putting a bit of feed on the ground to attract ground feeding birds. But, keep an eye out for any potential predators feeding too.
•Keep feeding stations clean and free from disease. Pour over some boiling water now and again to clean off.
•Don’t put feeding stations to near nest boxes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Tip 4: Shelter for attracting birds to your garden.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Along with space, shelter is very important to welcome birds to your garden. Bird boxes or nest boxes encourage birds to mate and stay within the garden. Evidence shows that many birds generations stay in the local area year on year.
Try these tips:
•If space allows, try placing nest boxes with different sized holes for different birds.
•Don’t put boxes to close to each other. Some birds are territorial and therefore can affect occupancy if to close.
•Don’t place your nest box in too exposed areas facing the worse of the weather, or in direct sun.
•Try to position your boxes near quieter parts of the garden. <\/div>\n

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Benefit:<\/strong>
The benefits of birds to gardens are many. Some birds eat insects, worms, aphids, catepillars, slugs,snails which can destroy roots and leaves on garden vegetation. Larger birds eat mice from the garden.<\/div>\n
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Detoring Birds:<\/strong>
To keep birds out of the garden there are various methods to choose from eg: bird netting, scarecrows, hanging shiny objects, foilf from tea bags, strings CD's along the garden will scare birds.<\/div>\n
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Finally:<\/strong><\/div>\n
Insha Allah we hope these tips will help you get the best of your garden and attract many indigenous  species to your garden.<\/div>\n
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HAPPY BIRD WATCHING <\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
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