Making Your Backyard a Bird Habitat

Make your backyard bird habitat starts with understanding that wild birds requires 4 basic elements to be lured to any location. Food, water, cover and nesting areas. When your yard birds include these elements will inevitably find their way into your garden.

Food: With the wide variety of cables on the market, it's easy to find someone who not only provide space for your new friends to eat, but looks great with your backyard décor. From country to contemporary, from the whimsical to the high forehead, now bird feeders come in several designs. The most important aspect of feeders is to know what type of bird you want to feed and select the type of seed that the birds find most attractive.

Water: Whether it's a bird party or a natural water feature like a pond, water is essential for birds. When using the bird to bathe, cleanse it regularly is probably the most over this aspect in making it attractive to your feathered friends. When an artificial lake is the source of water is essential to create a shallow area to prevent accidental drowning. A pair of stone or even a piece of wire mesh can provide an easy and life saving equipment area to help the birds escape an artificial lake, which has steep walls. Keep the water moving with a drip, waterfall or splinter will increase the attractiveness of water features.

Cover: Providing a safe environment not only provides protection against predators, but it increases the attractiveness of your yard. Choosing native plants that are also a source of food in the form of edible berries or flowers giving you more value for money. Be sure to keep the plants at a safe distance from the feeders so that the neighborhood cats do not use them as an area to ambush the birds find your bird buffet. Keep feeders at a respectable distance from trees, which also prevents the hawks from laying wait in the branches of an unsuspecting victim.

Nesting areas: To know what type of birds you want to attract any nest boxes is important for success in your backyard habitat. As some birds make their nests in trees or bushes, and some use a conventional bird house, knowing what you are trying to attract will keep vacancy rates low. If Wrens is your happiness a little box under your porch eaves can do the trick. If purple martins is your goal, so be sure to put their house is far away from trees as possible. If woodpeckers and owls are what you strive, you must place the box on a tree trunk. It really depends on the bird. A quick Internet search can give you all the special features of the countless number of birds that are locally in your specific are.

Whatever your budget or your location, follow these few steps more bird environment is within reach.