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When designing a wildlife
garden to attract birds, you will need to include plants that provide
berries and other food for the birds, as well as plants that will
provide shelter for nesting birds...
Birds
in your wildlife garden
Bird
gardens will need to include berries and food for birds. You
can encourage birds to make nests in your wildlife garden by putting up
bird boxes and by providing bird nesting
materials such as lambswool for them to line their nests.
Feeding
garden birds
Over
the winter months when food is scarce, birds will appreciate feeding on
a bird
table or with a bird feeder. Often the problem is
feeding the birds without the squirels stealing all the food but there
are some clever bird feeders that are squirrel proof such
as the birdball
bird feeder
If you grow sunflowers in your wildlife garden, don't forget to save
the seedheads. Garden birds will love to eat these sunflower
seeds.
Birds will also appreciate fat balls, which you can make yourself.
  
Bird garden plant choices for berries and
nesting materials
There are lots of plants
to choose from for your bird garden planting scheme. Holly is
a good plant for a bird friendly planting scheme as it
provides excellent protection for nesting birds, and the berries
provide food throughout the winter. Other good bird plants
with berries include euonymus, viburnum opulus, rosehips, ivy and
hawthorn.
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