Now is a great time to make your garden a place for birds to enjoy. In this video I show you 4 tips for making your garden more bird friendly.
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In this video I show you how to:
1. Place bird boxes- make sure they are out of reach of cats and in a sheltered space. They need to be robust as in spring birds may use them for new chicks.
2. Put up bird feeders – in autumn and winter birds have less food than normal so will really benefit from an additional supply.
3. Plant bird friendly plants – plant at least one of the following to provide food or shelter for your feathered friends;
– Cotoneaster Horizontalis, Pyraccantha and Callicarpa are shrubs that provide berries for birds
– Holly and Berberis provide thorns for nesting
– The Crab apple ‘golden hornet’ and the cherry tree
– Prunus Autumnalis Rosea are great trees for providing fruit for birds
4. Build a Bird Bath – Birds need water and somewhere for cleaning themselves. Here’s a simple way to create a bird bath on a budget. Just attach a garden pot to a saucer using silicon, add pebbles for smaller birds and fill with water.
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Do you have any old favourite tips for attracting birds? 🕊
Must say, adding a running waterfall to my garden during lockdown has brought so many more birds in I can’t tell you.
Pyrocantha and hawthorn hedging has attracted many birds to our garden. Keeping food supplies stocked up over winter (rather than letting them run out) also gives you the best chances of seeing more variety of species on the garden.
Was dissapointed with the techniques here. Tried em down the pub, still no lumber.
Lovely video – I do the same but I love all animals and also have adopted cats and somehow I communicate to all of them that this wild garden is a small corner of Paradise Garden and everybody seem to understand – 🎵🐦⬛🎶💚🧡💛💗🩷🩶
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Alan should've pointed out the giant barrell bird feeders. I'm not sure why he didn't mention this. The pheasants gather for miles around, where Alan then blasts them from the sky for funzies.
Nice video 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for the tips Alan I am now clearing up in the local night club. Who knew babes love nuts?
You may want to reinforce your nest box to prevent grey squirrels from chewing through to eat the chicks
I feed my birdie visitors mealworms…. And have a bird bath.
If you have a squirrel problem add spicy chili seeds. It does not affect the birds but repels the squirrels.
I have an established wildlife friendly garden in which I planted a Hawthorn twig which grew into a tree and all the birds love it and the Cotoneaster bush. I also recently filmed a robin feed from my hand. I felt like Snow White 🥰.
Wrong Hand Alan 😂
What a great video! Thanks for your tips! 💗
You’re such a nice bloke, Alan.
Once, at GLEE, during the Ground Force heyday, we were in the same aisle.
I shouted “We love you, Alan!”
There were many smiley faces around, nobody disagreed. Ground Force boosted our GC sales no end.
I wouldn't mind feeding the robins blue tits wrens etc. But they dont get a chance all we have in inwinster is bloody nuisance pigeons rookes magpies they dont stay long as I have good water pistol sick of the excrement and noise .
Beautiful Garden. It’s reflects your soul ❤
Any ideas to prevent hawk attacks without deterring birds?
Great video!.
Wonderful 👍👍👍👍👍
Nice one Alan😂
Because of the amount of rain we have been having my birdfeeders get stilled with water & this clogs the birdseed. Any remedy to stop this would be useful
I live in Cardiff and unfortunately we have LOADS of magpies and seagulls so our normal garden birds don’t get a look in with our feeders 😩😩😩🫣🫣🫣 what can we do please?
We have bird feeders and water baths around the garden, but we have fewer birds in the past year, I know bird flu is in Britain so maybe that is why. There used to be lots about.
Hi, what a nice way to make a fountain for the birds, I will definitely will make one for our garden.
Thank you.
Regards from Texas USA ❤
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Not the video I needed.
hey there, a new subscriber here, from central europe … i love this clip, an omg 60 birdies in one box
i love your garden, its so beautiful, hopefully one day, i will also have my own pieace of land with a nice parcel for a gareden and bushes and trees, you know, a home …
I am a new subscriber from USA and I absolutely love your videos. I love feeding the birds so this video was extra special. I found the video done in your yard, and that great voice was most calming.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thanx
Thank you Alan. Sorry to be a Jeremiah, but I have lots of nesting boxes, a big Cotoneaster ,and many shrubs. We now have virtually zero 'gaden birds, because of a population explosion of MAGPIES, which apparently are 'protected'. I have not seen a single word about how to address this disaster.
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And birds eat snakes too😂
You are blessed Allan.
Also deport the local cats!😊
So good, So right.
Thank you for this video ❤ Alan 😊
Come on did that bird really land on your hand..love the garden BTW.
You are a kind man, and a happy man. Thanks.
Very nice….I am from Shantiniketan, India….lots of birds are coming to my natural farm….I will definitely follow some of your tips….thank you 🙏
You are all so lucky! I have mainly crows menacing my backyard, destroying my peace, pulling out potter plants, jabbing at water lilies and flying away with newly planted lotus tubers. What can I do? There other birds but there's no chance against crows aggressions. Please advice
I used a pot and saucer, put the pot upside down, made a hole in it and bought some hedgehog ornaments. I put earth and gravel in it and planted succulents. I then put a saucer on the top and added more succulents. We use saucers as bird baths, but just place them on the patio. If you save an old sock hanger( the ones with pegs on), you can then peg all kinds of nesting material on to it for the birds to help themselves.
👀👀I love it ♥️😻😻🌳🪵🪻🌻🪺🦚🦜🦋🐝this it’s amazing garden 🪴 bravo 👏🏻
I loved your content. So peaceful. Are there any shrubs that are small and can be grown in pots? I live in an apartment. I have a north facing deck. We are not "allowed" to feed the birds and squirrels, but I do and try to camouflage them.
Cotoneaster is quite invasive?????
No cats around ?
My husband said: "we have a bird feeder; the WHOLE garden" which is true. It is a bird garden.
Most imported to plant the right plants for food and nesting place, and water.