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Tips and Techniques - 2006/05/08 20:16 We've started this forum to discuss ways of making your garden more bird friendly.

A lot of birdwatchers enjoy gardening too and there is no better way of combining these two pastimes than creating a bird friendly garden.

Personally I have a substantial part of the garden as wild meadow, cutting it only in the late autumn. Benefits of this regime have been regular visits from spotted flycatchers, goldfinches and linnets.

Another part of the garden has about 20 apple trees which attracts fieldfares in the winter to feed on the the remaining windfall apples.

Scraps left out support visits from crows, starlings, thrushes and blackbirds where hanging feeders attract blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, sparrows, greenfinches to name a few.

I like minimal maintenance and it sees to suit birds too!
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Re:Tips and Techniques - 2006/05/18 18:49 In my post,in the easy places to see birds forum, I have mentioned several plants that I have planted to make the garden more bird friendly.

This year we have had jackdaw and jays attracted, which has not happened before.

This is a relatively small garden. The success seems to be the sort of food I am putting out.

I have two bird tables. One with a mesh for smaller birds and one with out. The jay seems attracted to the small suet pellets that Gardman supply through garden centers.

I have a patio willow tree in a pot and last Xmas we had a fire crest on it.

Having the hanging feeders spread around the garden also helps. I have learnt my birdwatching in India where we have been visiting in the winter time for the last 10 years. For the last 3 years we have done some quite intensive birding but are still quite hopeless on many species.
We enjoy this hobby very much but could not be described as 'Keen' or experienced.
'interested' and moderate is probably the best description of our skills.
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Re:Tips and Techniques - 2006/11/04 20:47 we have two young apple trees and a plum tree but never seem to have any birds only tons of wasps. We also have lots of flowering bushes in front but cant seem to attract birds only seagulls or magpies. We put out a hanging bird seed thing and it is still there untouched after several months. All advise greatly received on how to attract birds as we would like the children to get interested in birds etc http://www.promomat.biz - handmade pewter birds and mounted photos - made in Scotland
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Re:Tips and Techniques - 2008/01/08 07:03 I only have a yard and no garden and I long to have a lovely garden packed with wildlife.

Does anyone know how to make a yard more appealing?

There is a park at the end of the road so I was hoping to attract some birds on their way to or from the park but have had no success.

I bought one of those net bird feeders but the seed inside it has started sprouting which kind of makes me thinkg nothing has touched it.
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