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This video explains how to prepare your garden and bird boxes to support nesting birds. I share simple steps for cleaning nest boxes, positioning them correctly, and creating a safe environment where birds can raise their young.
I also talk about providing food, fresh water, and natural shelter so birds feel secure and comfortable in your garden. A helpful guide for anyone who wants to encourage wildlife and support birds during the nesting season.
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It's bird nesting season time,
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everybody. Welcome to Gardening with
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Ben. And bird nesting season means that
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the birds are looking for somewhere to
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start nesting, ready for making their
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little babies this year. And hopefully
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new birds down in the garden. And blue
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tits are one of my favorite birds what I
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have at the autumn. They're absolutely
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gorgeous and they are beneficial to the
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garden. They'll go around eating all the
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bugs, all the slugs. And I've had birds
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nesting on my a lotment before. I put up
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some bird feeders at bird houses one
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year on Monday and within an hour they'd
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moved in and they'd started looking in
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them to seeing about nesting. So have a
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look and get yourself some birdouses up
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because it is beneficial to the a
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lotment. Now, I've got them pointing one
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direction and they seem to like that
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direction. One of my plot neighbors had
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them pointed another direction and they
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never got any birds in their blue tites.
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So, they moved them to the same position
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that mine were pointed in and straight
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away they got blue tits nesting in them.
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So, they do need to be positioned in a
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certain way, I believe. So, have a look
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at that and see about which position
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they need to be facing. So, how can we
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encourage the birds to move into the
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blue uh bird houses? Well, one of my
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tips is obviously feed them. And if
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there's food around, the birds will
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think, "Oh, it's easy to access the bird
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food around here." So, we're going to
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move in. So, I'm going to put some bird
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food near my birdouses to hopefully
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encourage the blue tits to move into
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them because we want to see them fledge
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again. That was so amazing the other
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year seeing them like peeking through
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the hole and getting ready to move out
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and yeah, it's going to be a great year.
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So, let's have a look at our birdhouses
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and let's look at getting some food up.
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So, these are my birdhouses that I've
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got on my plot. Absolutely amazing. And
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yeah, I got them off Amazon. Absolutely
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brilliant. Make sure that you've cleaned
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them out if you've got birdhouses on
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your plot. the birds won't move in if
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there's been signs of bugs in there or
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old nests in there. So, clean them out,
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disinfect them, and get them back up.
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Now is the perfect time to do it. And
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these are near my plum tree, so it's a
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perfect area for them to get bugs and
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grubs and enjoy. But let's get some bird
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food up and let's get them ready for
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nesting. So, we've got this bird food
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up. We've got some seed up, which they
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absolutely love eating the seed. Even
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the squirrels will pinch it, but oh
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well.
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we have to do these things and blue tits
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absolutely love fat balls. Gives them
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energy and they love them and they just
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nibble it down. It mine lasts forever.
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Uh the fat balls they last about two to
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three weeks whereas the seed will be
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gone down in a few days. But yeah, the
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fat balls are brilliant. So we need to
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get them out of them to be honest. But
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yeah, hopefully the birds will find
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these feeders and hopefully find their
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homes for this year down at the plot.
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So, it's going to be a good year for the
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birds this year down at the plot.
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We've also filled up all the feeders on
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the arches as well. So, yeah, hopefully
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get lots of birds coming down and
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hopefully finding a new home down on the
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a lotment. So, yeah, I do love to look
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after them. Yes, it can attract rats. It
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kind of trapped nice and definitely the
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squirrels, but I don't mind. As long as
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they don't damage all my crops, we're
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perfectly fine with it all. So, make
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sure you hit that follow button to stay
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up to date with everything that we're
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getting on with down here at the
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aotment. Look after the birds this bird
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nesting season. Until next time,
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everyone. Remember, keep smiling, keep
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shining and keep gardening with bed
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everyone.
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