Excerpts from Articles About How to Create Bird Gardens

How to Create A Bird Garden Paradise

Do you know how easy it is to convert an urban yard, or even a conventional garden, into a natural bird habitat... better known as a bird paradise?

The closer your yard resembles a natural habitat, the more secure and at home wild birds become. Every bird paradise has these four elements: food, water, safety, and nesting materials..  (more...)

Designing a bird garden that's active every day of the year just takes a bit more planning than the average garden.

This type of bird garden must provide food, water, and shelter for the entire year... as well as provide nesting and roosting sites during the summer. .  (more...)

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Bird books and articles always expound on the four elements essential to birds... food, water, nesting provisions, and shelter. Are any one of these more essential than another? No.

All will attract birds to your garden, but only one will make them stay.  (more...)

Remember when you were just a kid watching a pair of birds build a nest in your backyard? They grabbed your attention... where in the world did they find all that stuff, did they ever take a break, did they finish it?

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Birds Are Nature's "Green" Pest Control

The very same icky, squishy creepie-crawlies that give us the willies are delectable treats for wild birds. (Mind you, creepie-crawlie is not a scientific name. It's just what I call squishy things... like bugs, spiders, worms, and such.)   (more...)

Outdoor activity at home usually takes place in the backyard. This is where kids play and adults relax (unless they're watching those kids). It's also an ideal area for attracting birds.

The surest way to get a bird's attention is to introduce water into your landscape.

From a birds-eye view, the glint of sunlight on water is like a spotlight shining in the dark... and it draws them in like a magnet.   (more...)

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How you choose to introduce water into your garden determines the bird species you will attract.

Fortunately, a few basic water sources can bring in a large variety of birds.

Wild birds will respond if the water appears to be a natural occurrence.  (more...)

If you want birds to stay in your garden, to nest there, then you need to provide nesting places unique to their species.

Nesting boxes located among existing trees and shrubs in your garden will be the most successful because they imitate natural habitats. Actually, some aren't even boxes... they're more like platforms.

The secret is matching the nesting boxes, and where you place them, to the bird species you want to attract to your garden.  (more...)

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