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Could anyone tell me how i could attract wild life into my garden? All i
have is 3 blank lawns, with a few plants, no shrubs or anything. What
could
i do, at low cost?

Sharon.



The easiest wild life to attract to your garden is birds and also the
quickest and cheapest. You say you do not have any shrubs. Do you have a
fence or a hedge? If so, hang some bird feeders up. Seed feeders, fat balls,
peanut feeders anything you like. Here there and everywhere. Leave them
alone for a couple of days and the birds will find them. Coconut halves
filled with fat, insects and seeds. The Blackbird and the Blue Tits love
these Drive a stake into the ground, an old broom handle and hang something
from that!!!

They also need water. we have an old Victorian Chimney put with a brass
sundial set in the top. This is scooped out to form a bird bath. This is
refreshed every morning. And then there are the birds who like to be on the
ground, so put some food out at ground level. Not too much because of
vermin. Put water on the ground as well. we have two large dishes, I think
they are designed as saucers for large tubs, but I have them for water.

Do you eat apples? Put the core down under a plant/shrub/bush whatever you
have because the Blackbird will find that. I have an apple every mrning and
the core goes on the gravel next to the path. Blackbird looks for it now and
yesterday brought new youngun down :-))
Sparrows gallore and they flock to the nuts, the bath, the hedge, the seed
feeder.

and what variety do we get? Thanks to a super couple of Bird Identifiers,
Blackbirds, Blue Tits and Pigeons. All nesting in a big Leylandii. Sparrows
in and out of ours and neighbours hedges. A pair of greenfinches nesting I
know not where, but they visit my resturant ;-) Coal Tits and a pair of Gold
Finches and of course the Starlings, Collared Doves, and Jackdaws, these
latter ones loving the fat balls.

How much to set up? £10.00? and I add to it a bit at a time.

Put something up tomorrow and the birds will be here within 48 hours.

Me an expert? No. Only started last year and my computer desk overlooks the
garden :-))))) so I see them all.

Mike


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