How birdhouses can improve your garden Adding birdhouses for the garden to create safe places and safe, where a variety of beneficial birds can raise their families. By promoting an assortment of mainly carnivorous birds to the garden, the gardener can reduce their dependence on forms less environmentally friendly insect control while being able to enjoy the bounty of their garden. In addition, attracting birds to the garden has the advantage of providing hours of educational entertainment for the gardener looking busy parent birds raise their young and industrious.
Encouraging insectivorous birds such as wrens, sparrows, nuthatches and the garden, the gardener can be assured of active assistance to fight against the insects. A hungry bird can consume several times its own weight in insects and pests, and if this bird is also feeding a hungry baby nest, the greater the effect will be on insect populations. Many of these birds do not eat flying insects, but others, such as caterpillars, grasshoppers, and ants, too.
The type of nest depends on the type or types of birds gardener's welcome in their garden. Be careful that the box next to the nest entrance hole of appropriate size is provided for the specific birds to prevent access to the nest by larger birds or other predators. For example, a nest box for blue tits must have an entry hole no more than 25 mm in diameter, a birdhouse to a sparrow shall not exceed 32 mm in diameter.
Placement of nest boxes for birds is another important factor. Precautions must be made not to place them where they are exposed to wind, rain or direct sunlight. distance of the box from the ground is also important and should be sufficiently high to discourage intrusion by predators. If possible, the gardener should try to recreate the natural habitat of the birds they want to attract.
Nest boxes are readily available for purchase in store or online. They can also, with a little timber of expertise and proper tools, to be built at home. Plans with specific measures and lists of necessary materials are available online and in books.
Posted on June 3, 2010.
