Mike wrote:
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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.
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My mother puts currants on top of her water but, and a blackbird family
visit every day.
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