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...
Clare Stone |
Garden Birds
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How To Stop Pigeons Eating Your Bird Food
Pigeons are birds, right? So if we want to feed garden birds shouldn't we be happy to feed pigeons too? Hmm, well maybe, up to a point. But if you've...
Clare Stone |
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How Do birds Mate?
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. But hang on a minute, exactly how do birds mate? Well, most birds do things a bit differently from...
Alan Brimm |
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Why have The Birds Stopped Using Feeders In Our Garden?
There are lots of reasons why birds stop using feeders. Migration, moulting, predators, or better options elsewhere could all play a part.
Clare Stone |
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What To Feed Swans | Is it Safe To Feed Them Bread?
Swans are majestic birds: feeding swans, ducks and other water birds been a family pleasure for hundreds of years. Over the past few years, though debate has raged over whether...
Clare Stone |
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How to Choose the Best Wildlife Camera
Are you a wildlife enthusiast who wants to see what happens in your garden when you're not around? Perhaps, you like us, want to find out where shoes are mysteriously...
Melinda Connor |
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Kitchen Scraps For Garden Birds | What to Feed and What to Avoid.
You can save money, cut food waste and increase the variety of birds in your garden by adding kitchen scraps to the birds table.
Clare Stone |
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How To Repel Grey Squirrels | 5 Top Tips To Keep Them out of Your Garden
We are committed animal lovers here at Home & Roost. We love our garden birds,hedgehogs, bees and foxes. We wouldn’t dream of killing a spider. But even we draw the...
Clare Stone |
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What to Feed Birds in Summer | Top 5 Foods for Summer Birds
Between nest building, mating and raising young our garden birds are busy in the summer. they can use a bit of extra help in the food department.
Clare Stone |
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How We Rediscovered Garden birds In The Lockdown
If you’ve not done it yet, grab a cold drink, take a seat in your garden or local park, watch listen and enjoy the birds. It’ll make your day.
Clare Stone |
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Should You Feed Garden Birds All Year Round? Yes Please! Top 5 Foods to Offer Birds
You can start to feed birds at any time of the year. It is easy to create a feeding station in your back garden, whether using a tree to hang...
Annette Young |
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Introducing the Tit Family of Birds
Tits are easily recognisable. Small and agile, they can extract food from the feeders with ease. You will notice the difference when comparing to other garden birds. They often arrive...
Alan Brimm |
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Best Place to Put A Nest Box | Essential Guide to Bird Box Placement
To encourage birds into your garden all year round, it is worth adding a bird box. It enables the simple pleasure of watching birds nesting throughout the spring and it...
Annette Young |
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Swifts and Swallows: Do you Know The Difference?
After the dark months of Winter, there is an air of expectancy as we enter Spring. The arrival of Swifts and Swallows is often evocative of childhood. In the last...
Annette Young |
