The reason I spend so much time keeping my backyard in the best shape is that I love spending time outside, on the patio or on the porch, with family and friends.
The presence of flies in that very same outdoor space can really ruin that experience in many different ways. Flies tend to like our food as much as we do, they fly into our faces, they buzz around our ears, just to name a few grievances.
While having birds around in the front or backyard is a wonderful thing (for me at least), you would want them to stay away from the porch, for various reasons.
Perhaps the biggest reason is bird droppings, which can, in the long term, cause significant damage to your porch and surrounding area. Plus, bird droppings also don’t look and smell very good, and can carry diseases.
Did you know that you can use kitchen scraps as bird food?
By offering the right scraps to birds, in addition to traditional bird food, you’re providing a greater variety in nutrition sources, while also reducing landfill waste.
A bird bath in a garden or backyard space not only provides decorative value, it can also support the conservation of wild birds.
Bird baths provide a much needed water source for garden visitors such as birds and other wild animals, and is also a highly effective way to attract birds to a birdhouse in your backyard.
If you love having birds in and around your backyard, then you may need to help them with feeding, especially during the colder winter months.
One simple, easy and cost effective way to help birds with their daily nutrition intake, is by offering them oats or oatmeal, in addition to other kitchen scraps and food items.
A bird feeder not only helps birds with satisfying their nutrition needs, but it can also serve as a great decoration item in your backyard.
What you might not realize though is that there are a lot of different bird feeders to choose from, catering to various bird species and offering different types of food.
Once you’ve decided to install a birdhouse, it’s important to think about ways to attract birds to your backyard so they can use that birdhouse.
In addition to the decorative value, a birdhouse can also offer environmental benefits. But choosing the right bird house and making sure that birds are actually attracted to it, is more complicated than you might think.
If you were thinking of installing a birdhouse in your backyard to help birds or for decoration purposes, you’ve come to the right place.
Because in this article I am going to outline how there are great benefits in having birdhouses, not only for birds, but also for your backyard as a whole.