Living Garden
Nesting boxes
• Why a nesting box?
• Guests in the nest
• Placing out the nest
• Cleaning the nest
Bird tables
• Why feed birds?
• How do birds eat?
• What do birds eat?
• Species at the bird table
• Placement
• Cleaning
• Endangered bird species
• Put out water!
Butterflies
• Daytime butterflies
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Why feed the birds
Experts are uncertain as to whether garden-feeding birds will lead to saving certain endangered species. However, bird feeding may make a big difference for those birds in your general area. Providing birds with food, water and shelter can really help them during the winter and make your garden a haven for all wildlife to enjoy.
Feed the birds all year round
It is good to feed birds all year, to give them heat during cold periods and energy for the breeding season. Many birds, particularly tits, have to spend a large portion of their waking hours eating because the days are short.
Enjoy birds in your neighbourhood
Bird feeding also provides the possibility to study and get to know birds close up. We like to see and hear wild birds in our garden regardless of whether they are common or rare guests. We feed birds for our entertainment and welcome their presence, their amusing behaviour, their spring song and their bright colours. This is the reason why we North Europeans spend hundreds of millions of Euro annually on bird food and put out bird tables in gardens and outside our windows. We feed birds for our entertainment and to be able to watch them close up.
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