Welcome back to my blog and thanks for reading and following me. It's that time of the year, birds will be nesting soon. I have already seem starlings gathering duck feathers from my yard for their nests.
I try to encourage bird nesting in my yard, After all, I have an ideal property for birds. It's only about an acre and a quarter, but it has all the essential elements to support bird life. I live in a rural area, and my yard has trees, shrubs, brush piles, a pond, and berry and fruit trees As you have seen by my blog posts, i get a good variety of birds at my feeders during the winter.
In the spring and summer, I typically get house sparrows, wrens, and barn swallows nesting in my yard in the bird houses, and others such as robins nesting in trees. Some years bluebirds will inhabit one od the birdhouses.
I have ten bird houses on the property, and each spring I clean them out, repair if needed, and given them a fresh coat of stain to preserve them.
This is one of three I have along the pond. These are most popular with the barn swallows, and sometimes bluebirds. If you look closely in the second photo, you can see the three houses.
The other bird houses are in different locations in my yard including in an apple tree, lilac bush, birch tree and pine tree. I try to provide many different locations for the birds.
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