Here goes....
Moved into our home 3 years ago, its on a new housing estate, where they scatter the houses like lego blocks!
In our old home, we managed to attract a wonderful varity of birds to a feeders, without too much trouble.
But here for some reason, its like a desert for birds, as its a recent development, there are no real mature Trees about. & all the garden are fairly free of any safe spots for birds.
So I have spent time planting a range of plants and trees to attract birds to our garden, which include ivy, ferns, fruit trees, evergreen Honeysuckles, and a boundry hawthorn, as well as other.
We have plenty of feeders in varied positions in the garden, which are cleaned and restocked often, we tend to make our own seed fat balls but offer as well, fruit, water and nigella seeds.
Last year we managed to attract 5-6 goldfinches for a while, a month at the most, see pic, but apart from that and the odd pidgeon or Dove, we have completly blanked!
Any tips?
Goldfinches by scotiedog, on Flickr
