birds!!the ones with feathers!!!!!

I never seem to have any luck with bird houses,my husband has put one up on the side of our garage,and i would love for a family to move in however they never do,ive had them before at my old house,perhaps i need a :for let :sign up!
unless any one knows a better idea. LIVE EVERY DAY LIKE ITS YOUR LAST!!!!!!!

 

I have various 'bought' houses for birds but they much prefer a dense honey suckle or ivy. Our trelis lined fence panel with various evergreen climbers provides a nesting site for at least 3 bird families each year. Last year we had robins and blackbirds in the fence and wrens nesting under the end deck.

 

IVE PLANTED SOME HONEYSUCKLE TODAY!SO PERHAPS ANOTHER YEAR, HEY

 

hi pollyanne,
here are some suggestions on how to make nest boxes, that I have posted a while ago...

 

If you provide food they will come The first robins nest we had was in honeysuckle in the most stupid of places. They bailed out and rebuilt further up the garden in the ivy. Their first choice was within nose distance of the dogs yard :rolleyes: Since then they come back most years. In fact the year before last I was afraid to go out and disturb the birds as there were that many flight training sessions going on between the blackbirds and the robins.

 

You don't need a box a thrush has built its nest on the door rail of my green house!! One the eggs hatch i will need a hard hat to go in the greenhouse. Nightmare!!

 

I have no fewer than 5 nest boxes up in our garden - and though a couple of bluetits have made a vague attempt at a nest, nothing else has ventured near. We feed the birds, have 2 boundaries of hedging, and a wall covered in honeysuckle and roses, and another trellisfull of clematis, honeysuckle and a something inverleithii.

One can but try!

 

I do ok 2 nest boxes both used last year, one in use this year. Blackbird with 4 young under carport. She will come and feed them while I am there, and follow me around the garden, but not the male bird. A Wren started to nest there but threw a paddy threw everything down, started again this time with leaves off my Acer, not off the floor but pulled off the tree, now she has moved.

Last year she reared a brood there and a Robin nested on my ladders.

At least under my carport the Magpies leave them alone, have a flock of about 20 of them. Will add my carport is blocked by double doors at the front and only open to the back.

 

I have a really old hebe which is about five feet tall and wide, very dense it is in a protected raised spot between the house and a hill, a couple of robin families come every year.

 

Hello, lapod, lucky you ... both with the hebe and the robin families!