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.

baby bird image Parent bird feeding a baby bird at a man-made house.
But before our feathered friends can get to the busy point of nurturing a family they need to stake out a territory and defend it. Then they must find a mate.

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!