Discover Nutritional Needs of Common Birds
What You Need to Know Improper feeding is the leading cause of disease and death in pet birds, accounting for 80-90% of bird diseases. Birds require a balanced diet rich...
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Garden Birds
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What Birds Can I See in The Garden In Winter?
Though the plants in your garden might not be putting on much of a show during the winter months, the bird table certainly is. With our year-round residents joined by...
Clare Stone |
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What Should I Put on My Bird Table?
This is a question we often get from new bird table owners. What is best to put on your bird table to attract a good range of birds? What will...
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The Best Christmas Gifts for Bird Lovers
If you haven’t started your Christmas shopping yet now is the time. If you're shopping for a garden bird enthusiast, then we could have just the thing for you. Read...
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What Do Robins Eat?
One of our most popular garden birds, the robin is always a welcome visitor, especially in winter when his red breast brightens up the scene. The feisty little robin copes...
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11 Top Shrubs With Berries for British Birds
With autumn here and winter on the way, the ground will soon be too hard for worm digging and insects are getting scarce. Berries are a vital source of food...
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Why Do We Need Bird Feeders?
Bird tables have been around since the 1800s. And people have been putting food out on the ground for birds in their gardens for hundreds of years. And now we...
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How To Clean a Bird Table
If you have been successful in attracting lots of birds to your bird table, you will find it gets grubby pretty quickly and will need regular cleaning to keep it...
Alan Brimm |
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Who’s Who of British Garden Birds
When you start to garden for wildlife, and put out food and water for the birds, you will start to notice a huge range of different feather visitors coming to...
Annette Young |
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Where to Place a Bird Bath
Ornithologists will tell you that providing fresh water for birds is probably more important than providing food. It can attract a broader range of species to your garden and will...
Clare Stone |
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Where To Place a Bird Table?
Positioning your bird table correctly can have a massive impact on how much the birds use it, and how much you enjoy it. So it's important to take some time...
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How Did Grey Squirrels First Get to The UK?
The grey squirrel is now classed as an Invasive Alien species in the UK. It’s thought of as a major pest and blamed for the destruction of our native red...
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When Do Birds Start Nesting?
It's a good question, and as with many things in nature, the answer is "It depends". There are a lot of factors that determine when birds start nesting. These include...
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How To Secure A bird Table to The Ground
High winds wreak havoc in the garden, and there is nothing worse than looking out of the window to see your bird table on the floor. For starters its a...
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