Other bird needs to consider

Now that you have learned how to attract birds for your backyard bird watching, you will want to provide a few more simple things for your new friends.

This step will be as easy as the first! Provide:

·        Water: You may want to consider a birdbath for your backyard or even a frog pond or water garden. Fresh, and especially moving, water can bring twice as many birds to your yard. This will offer water not only for the birds to drink, but also for them to bathe themselves.

·        Protection: The hopper bird feeder offers good shelter from the wind, rain and snow. Birds also like to burr holes in old tree limbs, so you may want to consider leaving some dead limbs on the trees for their use. Birds also like to hide in thick shrubs