Posted by Sascha | Posted in Advice, cast garden furniture, iron garden furniture, metal garden furniture, traditional garden furniture | Posted on 17-06-2010
Tags: birds, cast garden furniture, garden furniture, pet food
[reblogged from typepad]
It’s amazing how much wildlife there can be in your own back garden. Even in built-up areas you can get a large variety of birds and hedgehogs who will often filch from your pet food bowl! Sitting outdoors in the summer can be made even nicer if there are lots of different birds to watch.
Of course, not all of us will have a very large back garden and you may think that starlings are the only birds in the area. But it is surprising how many other breeds can turn up when you put out a certain type of wild bird food.
The only thing to bear in mind is that birds are not fussy about where they poo… and if you set up a bird feeder near your nice cast garden furniture, then you really are asking for trouble! Try to put a little thought into the best place for their seed. It needs to be out of the way, but you still want to be able to sit and watch them.
Birds are a flaming nuisance. If they are not crapping all over your car, then they bomb your house windows instead.
I just hope they aren’t practising for a big uprising…
I love to see and hear all of the different birds.
We have even had some Scandinavian ‘Waxwings’ in our garden! They sat eating the berries outside our kitchen window.