Bird Tables
The quickest and easiest way to attract birds into your garden is to put out food for them through winter and early spring.
This is when natural food becomes scarce and many birds depend on food put out in gardens. Many different sorts of bird visit gardens for food in winter. Which ones you see will depend on where you live.
A birdtable gives you a clear view and offers birds some protection from cats. Try to place it in the open but not too far from a hedge or bush. This means the birds can make a quick dive for safety if danger threatens. You are more likely to see shy birds such as blackcaps, that do not usually stray far from cover. Various window ledge and hanging bird feeders are available. Acrobatic members of the tit family like hanging feeders. Greenfinches quickly learn to use special haninging feeders and seed hoppers too. In places, especially near woodland, other visitors to feeders may include nuthatches and great spotted woodpeckers.
Ground Feeders
Not all birds feed from raised tables or hanging baskets. Dunnocks, redwings, blackbirds, fieldfares and starlings are some of the birds that prefer to feed on the ground. Remember to put some food under your birdtable or along the edges of a hedge or shrubbery for these.
