Hosting Wild Birds
for Bird Watching

Bird Watching By Putting Out the Welcome Mat

Bird watching in your backyard is greatly enhanced by erecting bird houses. This addition to your yard provides a wonderful way to enjoy backyard birds. Bird houses provide a whole other broad range of wild bird nesting habits for you to observe.

It only stands to reason that if you are setting the table for wild birds with bird feeders, they would choose to nest “down the hall”, so to speak. My hope is that you will learn here, how to encourage wild birds to use your yard to raise their young.

Parent bird feeding a baby bird at a man-made house.

Courtship rituals are among the most fascinating bird behaviours to watch. There are no flowers or diamond rings. Instead you will witness interesting displays of feathers, fancy steps, bobbing heads, special calls and songs, food offerings often given in thoughtful tenderness or sometimes seemingly aggressive behaviour. Yet all these diverse traits, more often carried out by males, are intended to accomplish one thing. Winning the affections of a mate!

Who would want to miss such exciting bird watching activity!

A List of Things to Consider When Choosing Bird Houses

1. Which type of bird species will use a man made bird home?

2. Do those birds live in my area?

3. After the first two questions are answered – what type of structure will they use?

4. How many should I put up in my yard?

5. Where is the best location in my yard?

6. When should I put up a bird house?

7. What about predators?

8. Will there be a lot of maintenance?

9. Wild birds nesting habits.

Types of Bird Abodes

Decorative wooden Purple Martin House.

Purple Martin House

Finch House

Chickadee House

Wren House

Blue Bird house

Bat Box

Owl Box

Gourd houses

Nesting Shelf

Swallow Shelf

Roosting Boxes

Nesting Pocket

Snags

More About Bird Houses

• Who Raises Baby Birds in Bird Houses?

• Attracting Backyard Birds: Is There Another Way?

• Wild Birds Nesting Habits.

• Predators

Types of Bird Abodes

• Gourd Houses

• Roosting Boxes

Building Your Own Bird Abodes

• How to Build a Bird House: The Right Way

• Building Bird Houses that Get the Movers Hired

• Are You a Bird House Real Estate Expert? Take the Quiz!

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