The Wildlife Trust has shared some guidance on how to get more feathered friends into your outdoor spaces – and it’s all about where you place the food in your garden
One of the most rewarding aspects for numerous gardeners is successfully blending plant life with wildlife.
Drawing birds and other creatures into their gardens is viewed as a tremendous advantage of having an outdoor space that others wish to inhabit. The Wildlife Trust has offered guidance on attracting more feathered visitors to your garden areas.
British Robins, or Erithacus rubecula, are a recognisable bird species that regularly visits green spaces. These all-year-round garden birds are recognised for their characteristic red breasts and for being fiercely territorial.
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They are also celebrated for their continuous song that echoes throughout the seasons. Whilst providing the correct food type is essential for drawing robins, the trust highlighted it might assist in encouraging them to visit your garden if the food was positioned in a particular location, reports the Express.
Their website states: “Some birds such as blackbirds, collared doves, thrushes, dunnocks and robins prefer to feed off the ground.”
Discussing the significance and pleasure of having birds visit your garden, a spokesperson from the Wildlife Trust commented: “Attracting birds to your garden is easy, supplement naturally available food with bird food, and watch them flock in.
“Remember to keep feeders and tables clean, so the birds stay healthy and disease-free, and position your feeders in a relatively open area away from predators – the birds will feel safer and visit more.
“Make sure food is available at all times as birds have different needs throughout the year, such as feeding young.”
The Wildlife Trust recommends having a selection of food available on hand to attract the small birds to your garden. Three ways of providing food to attract birds:
- Hanging seed feeders – these will attract species such as tits, goldfinches, house sparrows, greenfinches and siskins.
- Niger/Nyjer seed feeders – made to hold tiny niger seeds, these feeders attract goldfinches, siskins and redpolls.
- Mesh peanut feeders – these devices let birds take only small chunks of peanut, rather than whole nuts that they might choke on if fed. These feeders will attract sparrows, starlings and tits.
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