Buy a bird box and put it up in your garden and you will not only encourage wild birds to nest but also be able to enjoy birdwatching on your doorstep. As it approaches the nesting season, small wild birds like sparrows, blue tits, wrens, robins, blackbirds, and nuthatches are looking for suitable nesting places, but many of the natural locations are under threat by the pressures of modern farming and house improvement.
 If you put up a wild bird nest box at this time of year you stand a good chance of having a nesting pair by the spring. Watching the young family grow and finally leave the nest is a fascinating process for anyone interested in wildlife. It is also educational for children of all ages.
Buy a bird box
There is a stylish and unusual range of bird boxes, feeders and bird tables on the Funky Bird Box website. This is a small UK manufacturer of fun, colourful, painted wooden nesting boxes that not only brighten up the garden but are designed to meet the requirements of a wide range of small garden birds.
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Useful bird related links
For more information on bird boxes, protecting birdlife and spotting garden birds, visit these websites:
Wild bird nest boxes
Buy bird boxes, feeders, and tables »
National Nest Box Week
Support the BTO’s annual conservation campaign »
Spotting garden birds
Websites with photos of wild birds and information on bird photography:
Bird watching in the garden »
Blue Sky Birds »
Digiscoped »
Diary of nesting birds
A fascinating diary showing webcam pictures from a nest box.
Peggy’s bird box webcam »
Facts about bird boxes
Research at Bristol University has shown that as birds see colours in the same way that bees do – with 4 cones, as opposed to the 3 in the human eye, they have a greater response to colour.
Why a coloured bird box »
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