More Tips For Your Flying Visitors

A couple more tips in attracting friendly fliers to your backyard:

Spraying...
Do not spray pesticides ion your lawn. What this does is kill all the insects in your lawn and mulch. These insects are the base of food for your friendly fliers and keep them coming back for more.

Trimming...
Don't trim your trees and bushes heavily in the early Spring. This will leave the berries, which attract the birds. If you trim heavily then their will be no berries and the friendly fliers will not come.

Cover...
Birds like to move around restlessly between tree branches and like to have areas where they can hide if they feel threatened.

Food...
When your fruit trees are in full bloom you will see birds that eat fruit. When your plants are blooming you will see birds that eat the insects since flowers attract the insects.

As you can see their are several little things that can be done to help attract friendly fliers for your bird watching enjoyment.

Attracting Birds to Your Backyard: Mulch is the Key

Yes bird feeders can sure attract friendly fliers to your backyard, but to really attract and keep them coming back using mulch is the key. Why do I say this? Once you spread mulch around in your backyard you will begin to attract bugs, critters and lizards, which make for good food sources for your friendly fliers along with your bird seed. This will also reduce the amount of bird seed that you will have to purchase. And, in this economy everything little thing helps.

The mulch helps keep the soil moist and cool and maintain a steady layer and this will begin to enrich your soil. Recommended mulch is your basic grass clippings, pine bark or pine straw. The grass clippings of course you can get from your grass cuttings while the pine bark or pine straw can be obtained from local tree trimmers. They normally grind up the tree trimmings and haul to the dump so you should probably be able to get this type of mulch for free. I think they would be happy to give it away instead of having to haul it away.

An inexpensive tip for your attracting fliers for your bird watching enjoyment.