Posted in Bird Food on Jun 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Another way of feeding birds is to plant a variety of shrubs, bushes or even hedges. This is natural food for birds.
So next time you go to a garden centre - think British Bird. Ask what plants feed birds.
A bush needs planting once and provide fruit and shelter for our garden birds for [...]
Posted in General on May 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Hedges - An ordinary hedge isn’t really ordinary -it’s got many uses in the animal kingdom.
Birds weave their nests in amongst the branches of hedges, or the thick ground vegetation. There are long tailed tits, wrens, hedge sparrows, blackbirds and chaffinches.
Many seed eating birds catch insects to supplement the diet of their young family . [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Feb 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The birds are back. Thank goodness the birds are back!
All day yesterday there was such a strange silence without any birds at all in the garden.
Yesterday this silence started at dawn and the silence and lack of birds continued until dusk. There was no birdsong as they settled in for the night and no sound [...]
Posted in Countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds on Dec 15th, 2007 No Comments »
After feeding the birds this morning I went for a walk. There had been a hard frost and everywhere was coated with frost. Everywhere that is except underneath the hedgerows.
The line of hedges that surround the fields provide shelter and food for birds and animals.
This photo below shows just how important hedges are in keeping [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Dec 9th, 2007 No Comments »
The hedge is home for many birds, animals and insects.
The hawthorn hedge bears crimson berries which are called Haws.
Many birds feed on these Haw berries in Autumn and early Winter.
The leaves of the hawthorn are eaten by woodpigeons.
Blackberries, rosehips, hawthorn berries and sloes are eaten by many birds.
Hips, haws, elder, holly, ivy, rowan and yew berries are the [...]
Posted in General on Sep 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Life in Britain has become very noisy. The quiet helps us understand our place in the world.
The countryside, and therefore the wildlife, including birdlife, is important to us.
This country lane has a silence about it - yet it is never fully silent - because of birdsong.
High above us the birds soar and at hedgerow height they flit about, [...]
