Birds in our neighborhood:
It is nice if you, as a local resident, want to give nature a helping hand by making it attractive making your garden for birds and/or placing bird nest boxes. This contributes to the biodiversity in the city. Birds (great tit, blue tit, but also jackdaws and starlings) eat processionary caterpillars, so that is also a big advantage. But birds also give above all color and sound in your garden. Also check out the website:
https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/in-mijn-tuin/onze-tuinvogels.
Checklist for a bird-friendly garden Garden birds visit your garden for food, safety and a place to breed. Also in a small garden you can welcome birds. View our checklist and discover the work points
of your garden.
Is there natural food (insects and fruit) in your garden?
Do you fill the feeding table with a seasonal bird supply?
Do you offer your garden guests clean drinking water?
Are there shrubs, trees and hedges that can serve as shelter?
Is there material in your garden with which birds can build nests?
Do you offer a good nesting box? And do you hang them in a good place?
Five tips for attracting birds to your garden
- Leave dead wood and leaf litter. This is useful for birds to carry their nests
build. Pieces of wool, cat and dog hair are also sometimes processed
bird nests. - Plant shrubs, trees and hedges. Birds use them as a shelter and build there
into their nest. Some shrubs bear berries, a delicacy for birds. - Provide drinking water. During frost, birds often lack water. A shallow bowl water usually suffices as a drinking place. Change the water regularly. Definitely don’t addsugar or salt. In the summer you can put a larger bowl, so that birds can to bathe.
- Hanging nesting boxes: You can find nesting boxes in all colors and sizes. Choose or create one
nest box tailored to the birds in your garden. Hang them in a good place. After winter remove old nesting material and clean the nesting box with hot water and a brush. - Make gradual transitions from lawn to plants, shrubs and trees. By imitating nature as closely as possible, you create more opportunities to attract birds to your garden to lure.
Nest boxes on municipal trees in our neighborhood.
In collaboration with the municipality, we as a working group will have nesting boxes in March 2022
hung in municipal trees in places where there are many processionary caterpillars, e.g. along the
Landing with lots of large oak trees.
As a working group, we have had questions about cleaning the lockers. Primary schools helped with this last year; we are going next year do the cleaning and reassembly yourself.
Because great tits were already hibernating in the boxes, it was decided to end it not to do in autumn. In 2023 we will go at the end of August – beginning of September, after the breeding season, clean the cabinets and hang them back.
We wish you a lot of fun with the birds in your garden. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Working group play green and environment.