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Hi again looking for bird netting for the new shoots on everything that the birds just love to eat all brasicas gone all shoots gone everything in the allotment must taste  really good i,ll let you know if the birds leave us any   anybody purchased

Hi I'm sure this question has been asked before, i have searched but can't find an answer, do bird droppings damage plants? i don't mean by changing the soil composistion or ph i mean do droppings on leaves, stems, flowerheads damage the actual part

It's about 1.8m up from the ground, north facing, very protected with a bambooo growing over the opening and a mature ceanotus arching over it.  Crab apple in front which birds often hop onto. Many blue tits, sparrows, robins and wrens in our garden

year, I don't worry about it. We have a box that has been hidden in shrubbery for years, its impossible to get to it but it hasn't stopped the Bluetits from nesting.  Birds will clean out a box themselves so I wouldn't worry about it. Better to provide

Hi , I've got a bird of paradise ( the STREZ word which I can't spell !! ) It's flowered beautifully the last few years however this year it's got the flower spikes but at the top they look like they 've withered and feel like paper . They live

streamlined birds as the perfect herald of summer and I wondered why there were fewer this year. But on Wednesday there they were, a large group of maybe 20 swooping way up high.There must be a huge volume of aerial plankton up there. Every sudden dart aside

Small garden. Only 10 metres by 12 metres. I've got a feeding station for birds. I get quite a lot of visitors during the day - sparrows, starlings, tits, robins, blackbirds, pigeons and magpies (annoyingly!). I've been given a sparrow terrace

I found this young cat in my garden trying its very best to get to my homemade seed cake, I think it was attracted to the lard    Love the photo, it's the sort of daft thing one of mine would do. I think the lard was still warm when I put the cake in to the feeder and the wind w...

, if not more , variety's of birds ,on the lawn and hedges. This experiment was hard to implement , but i am reaping the benefit at the moment.Regarding the Box to attract Blackbirds etc, would not that be prone to Squirrels, and Magpies? I have put a bird box

feeder on the office window for about 3 weeks. the birds refuse to use it. They still visit the bird table close by and the robins come to the window sill-we even had a blue tit in the office. Any idea what I can put there to encouage them? Currently