Attracting Birds Is Easy - Just Build the Right Kind of Wildlife Habitat for Them

If you're a bird lover but you don't really do bird-watching expeditions, you can still come by a great deal of fun in your own backyard. You just need to learn the principles of attracting birds.

Of course, we are talking about attracting birds of the winged fluttering variety here - not a certain other kind. Now if you live in the city, the birdbath should be your number one priority. Birds don't really find water bodies as often as they would like to in an urban environment. Provide for a large and clean birdbath the whole year round, and you'll be the most popular hangout spot in the entire area.

For the winter, all you need do is to take the trouble to buy a beautiful heated birdbath. And when you send it out in the kindergarten, make sure that it's well away from any kind of shrubbery. Birds don't take well to taking a dip in a place where they might be surprised by a hiding cat or dog.

When you design your garden, you need to do it with your interest in birds in mind. The birds in your area are the local kind. And so, your entire garden will have to be an oasis of local and native plants. When you do this, your visiting birds will have something or the other to do all year round. That's the beauty of going local. Wildlife in the area is completely adapted to using local flora for their purposes all year round.

Birds don't just eat birdseed you know. They eat insects and worms. Some people will just forget all about this even as they set about building a garden for attracting birds. They'll go about their business growing their garden just the same as always - they will use insecticides and pesticides.

Not only is that going to get rid of all the insects that would attract your birds come mealtime, it's going to poison your visiting birds as well. You need to go with an organic approach if you're interested in attracting birds.

Lawns are unnatural. There are no large open green grass lawns in nature. Not to mention, lawns are of no interest of birds. There's just nothing there for them. Instead, build a beautiful wildlife habitat with a brush pile, dead trees, shrubbery and all the other stuff that birds like to be able to play in, nest and and hunt in.

You'll need to study your local forests to try to determine what kind of natural space you should design for your visiting birds.