How to Attract Birds to Your Garden-Tutorial
All of the feeders and feed mixes featured in this video can be found on www.vinehousefarm.co.uk/.
Have you ever wanted to know how to attract birds to your garden? Our experts at Vinehouse Farm have put together this video to show you what types of bird to expect in your garden and how you can feed them.
This video acts as a bird feeding tutorial, teaching you how to find out what types of food birds eat by just looking at their bills, as well as giving you tips on how to attract birds to your garden throughout the year. With beautiful videos of birds singing, eating, and flying, you can enjoy the natural sights of the common and less common birds that you will be able to find in your garden.
If you have ever wondered why husk free bird feed mix is better to use than others you may find in shops, you can have all of your questions answered in this video. Whether you are a newcomer or an expert, these top tips give an illustrated guide to how to attract birds to your garden.
In this video, we cover:
- The positioning of feeders to ensure that all species can get food
- Type of feed
- The safety of birds in your garden
- The maintenance and hygiene of feeders
- The best feeders for keeping out unwanted animals such as squirrels.
Feel free to post your comments and questions below regarding feeding birds in your garden and the feeders that you can use. You can subscribe to our channel to find out more information regarding the wildlife in your garden by clicking here goo.gl/wiBZTD
Anybody here in 2024.? Love birds
Yep❤ got a bird feeding station, and two bird boxes, we have a couple of blue tits nesting. It was my valentine's present 🐣🐦 Seen coal tits great tits and siskin so far so lovely
I'm new here. It's my first time. I love birds
During this lock down, NOTHING gives me greater pleasure of going down the allotment filling up the feeders then sitting and watching my visitors, there are dozens of species . The best relaxation therapy I know. Love this video, in love with the voice as well.
Happy chappy, good on you.
Yeah you could get a piece of paper and write down the names a d try to find individuals.
Good on ya sirr 👌
@@wildlifespotlight511 or what ive done in past is search the colours and add bird to see results lol xD
Hi~We have some free bird feeders(US) and would like to find people who are interested in them to test them, if you are interested you can contact me, thanks!
I would like the narrator to read me a bedtime story
LOL wolly
me too.
Me too
Proper English that flows when we'll spoken. Seems so rare now days.
Whatever they’re paying her it’s not enough. Could listen to any random thing with her narrating for hours.
I saw some small birds taking shelter from the rain on my window, it was sad to see them shelter on a short length porch so i decided to build them a proper bird house and feeder. This video has taught me a lot thank you so much! Now i'm filled with determination to help save the bird population even if its just for a few birds!
Mei Tan You're awesome!! 😊✌💕
Mei Tan that’s really kind of you, hope you attract lots of birds
Mein Tan , complimenti, anch'io colloco mangiatoie in inverno e cassette nido nei mesi di riproduzione .
Thank you fir being a kind person, all creatures need us to protect them and be their voice, I've now become vegetarian after seeing how cruel factory farming and slaughterhouses are, animals are related with us, we need to speak up for them as well are the powerful ones, they are not....but they are soooo much nearer to God than we are.
preach
10 years ago, at 15, I was looking up make up tutorials on KZhead. Now at 25 I’m looking these bird videos.
As the sage said " youth is wasted on the young"
Same, I’m 24 😂
The virus is getting me new hobbies
V nice
same
Same
Yep just bought one last week but sadly no birds came yet 😭
Same lol
Me at 11 PM: "I should go to bed" - Me at 3 AM: "I should watch this video on bird feeders"
Me too, sleep well later on.
It's three in the morning while I'm procrastinating on homework by watching the proper way of attracting birds. What am I doing.
Cudket lmaoo
I see no problem here. :-)
Have you finished your homework 2 years later?
Cudket d
Cudket how to make bird feeder
What a perfect diction and delightful English accent. Each syllable wonderfully pronounced.
Right. A rarity indeed on KZhead.
I am glad it is not Australian.
@@jennaleaf8256 Why, I love Australian accents!
@@jennaleaf8256 Roit mait? lol
So true.
You know you are getting old when you watch videos of bird feeders every day and night.
🐝🐝🐝🐦🕊️🦜
So true! I watch the birds in my garden for hours and hours, and mix it up with video’s of birds
Old at 28 😂😂😂 here i am
lol. so true. The age when you don't mind eating greens as well
I'm just 23. I just love the chirping sound of birds. Hence here
My local pet store makes up a fantastic mix of seeds etc. Containing sunflower seeds, split pea, berry suet & dried meal worm all mixed in with the seed! The birds Love it.
Eve Monroe what type of feeder do you use for this mix ?
The trouble is, birds drop seeds and stuff. What happens then?--------you get rats! Trust me, I had to sop feeding the birds!
@@tojaks this comment has scared me ...now im wondering if i did the right thing getting a bird feeder ....
I absolutely adore this video - it's well-narrated, beautifully shot, and full of useful information: congratulations!
So well said.
I agree 🙂
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This lady should be the next David Attenborough
!!!! Totally agree!!! Her voice is just so clear and calming
100%
Or the next James Bond
I started with feeling sorry for local wintering birds, so I made a feeder from a milk jug. Now with multiple feeders, suet cages, bird bath etc, I have attracted 30 species to the yard. I see chickadees, nut hatches (red and white breasted), hairy and downey wood peckers, flickers, almost every day, certainly several times every week of the year. Spring and fall brings warblers, and finches through, as well as multiple species of sparrow. Coolest so far was a Lazuli Bunting. Such a colorful blue, manage some great photos. Bird watching is a great hobby, and I think it is the ultimate retirement past time. Feeding, photographing, cataloging, drives in the country to observe etc etc. Together with gardening can easily be a fulltime occupation. Cheers
This video is beautiful and relaxing. Narration is amazing, and very informative without being in your face or difficult to digest. The visuals are so well shot and just nice to watch even if you aren't looking to feed birds. Thank you so much!
Love birds. Life wouldn't be the same without them.
Would be nice and great to fly like them.... whoosh!
During our winter, when birds are rare to feeders in our yard, so our two cats cannot window watch nearly as much as other seasons, I sometimes put on bird and squirrel videos such as this AND THEY LOVE IT. I get a bonus of watching the videos AND my cats watching the videos. A perfect winter morning with my coffee, loads better than morning TV, which we got rid of with cable. Now we only stream channels such as this, saving money and sanity. 🌸✌🏽😻
I enjoyed this video SO MUCH!!! Good reminders of those of us that are already birders!!!
Hi~We have some free bird feeders(US) and would like to find people who are interested in them to test them, if you are interested you can contact me, thanks!
Felt very nice to observe the 'Window Birding' in the morning hour. Great thing to start the day. Thanks to the friend who suggested this site!
I’ve watched this video like 20 times over the past 4 years
same here!
@@clauciusfello1197 yay
All my favorite birds are here love this video ❤
Is it just me or are birds and fish really cute?
WolfySnackrib666 I totally agree!!!
and have you heard a song bird singing under your window ? There is no sweeter and cuter sounds and it's full of language and meaning.
Yes I wholeheartedly agree with you, however, I think all creatures are cute, yes insects etc too. Have you seen how clever octopus are? And ants? Pigs? The list is endless, we really need to get to know and understand our animal relatives, they are all cute and beat no malice.
@@goognamgoognw6637 ...so very true, they are beautiful.
@@barbarastepien-foad4519 It's true all creatures are cute. Beside, jugement is a virtual and interested action that reflects the judge. Who are we to judge animals. But i admit you are on a higher spiritual level than me if you can find all insects cute. My list is short : ladybug is cute, a honey bee is very cute, a butterfly is cute. But no matter, i respect every living being and i find cute even a cow or a horse and yes a pig. But there are animals we love to hate : big white sharks, salt water man eating crocs, mosquitoes. And just to make my point, there exist one tropical bug that make eggs under mammal skins then the eggs larvae move to the heart and eat it causing death. That's not cute either.
Since the virus hit I have been looking for things to do that would be fun and exciting so I purchased 2 bird feeders and have had the most beautiful birds come into my back yard and I watch them from my back deck and just enjoy this new found hobby.
This was so useful and very well photographed! I started putting out food, and now have huge flocks of mated Mourning Doves, one Rock Pigeon, some Eurasian Collared Doves, flocks of House Sparrows, noisy flocks of Brown Headed Cowbirds with beautiful songs, Red House Finches, Lesser Goldfinches, and a mated pair of Dark Eyed Juncos! An occasional black or grey squirrel too. I put out food for squirrels on the other side - front yard. They should not starve either! One mated pair of M Doves decided to sit on my large flat tray feeder (that I built myself) and actually laid an egg on it!!! Now I have to build them a permanent nest. They are so very sweet and affectionate, like pets. This is incredibly valuable knowledge. I am so glad I saw this video. I will be looking into your products soon! Many thanks from California!!
I don't know how often I watched this video. I love this video😂
Yip, do your thing when you have the chance, big or small doesn't count, only life does
What a beautifully made video, photography and narration. Love the birds.
Very lucid and well explained. Particularly liked the fact the video was to the point and informative. Thank you!
Thank you for such beautiful and informative video! I love watching the birds and I always look for way of attracting more and other varieties of birds!
All the birds I have are seagulls, crows and pigeons.You're incredibly lucky!
Hi, thanks for making this video! It's by far the most informative I've seen. Very helpful :-)I've only recently become interested in birds, but they're so great to have in the garden! We get some beautiful songbirds, and sometimes a woodpecker or two. I'm glad that I've started birding, and that I've done my research on it too. I'm still a kid, so I guess it's good to start something while you're young. Anyways, thank you for your help, I hope you and your local birds are doing well!
Thank you so much for the lovely informative video. Learnt so much today :) I want more birds to visit my Garden. The Local council has given permission to builders to erect dwellings so they have destroyed the natural habitats which had been here for ages. We used to even have deer and squirrels coming to the gardens. Now they all have disappeared. I am trying to encourage at least a few species to come to the gardens. So far, Red Kites, Starlings, Tits, Black birds,Robins, Finches, Sparrows, Collard doves, Wood Pigeons,Green and red Woodpeckers and even Malard ducks have taken an interest. Food classification and feeder styles were very useful.. Thank you so much.
Very informative without a bunch of fluff. Thank you very much!
Great information thanks for that love garden birds
beautiful video thankyou gave me plenty of ideas, love our garden birds, 😀
I live deep in the countryside,love watching the different species visiting the bird table.
An exceptional presentation, and very informative. Thank you for posting it.
wow im so amazed.....im bird lover...so beautiful to see defferent kinds of birds...i hope i have a garden like that full of birds..thanks for the video💙💙💙
Once a tiny little woodpecker was eating from my bird feeder it was so cute :3
I’ve just started feeding the birds and this has some very useful info for me thanks 😄
Watching my birds is my favorite pastime.
Excellent video. Even just watching the birds nibbling at the feeding station is entertaining. This will be my reference video for bird feeding.
My foster kitten 2 months old enjoyed ur video! 🐦🐾🐾❤
Hello Michele how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
What a mouthful! Perfect for baby birds supper!
Awww that was lovely, I love feeding the birds, although been feeding the birds for a good few years now, I feel I’ve learnt some new things to. Thank you so much for this video.
Loved your presentation. Thanks for sharing.
Nice to see so many bids coming to the garden tutorial. They make great students, don't they.
they are doing what is natural. we are the students,
What beautiful birds! So pleasant to watch!
So beautiful. And comprehensive. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm so happy I don't have to spend days chasing these birds, now I can finally feed my family!
Hi~We have some free bird feeders(US) and would like to find people who are interested in them to test them, if you are interested you can contact me, thanks!
Excellent! Very well presented and very informative!!
Great tutorial. I am always looking for new ideas or something bird related that I can improvise. Thank you! God bless you.
Amazing shots. Very nicely done and more informative. Thank you. Lots of new and beautiful shots.
Just fantastic. Greetings from Quito, Ecuador.
Excellent video and I loved the close-ups of the birds. It was particularly useful to know about mealy worms as I must admit to not having tried feeding them to our birds. Rats are the main problem with the bird feeders for us - we are torn between not wanting to encourage the rats while supporting the birds.
We once had a problem with rodents climbing up a wooden pergola on which the feeders were hanging off nails we banged into the upright beams,but the problem stopped when I re-sited them as hanging feeders from the beams at the top. In the mid-winter I was filling different feeders with either seed mixes,peanuts or fat balls,and once one was emptied I'd wash it out thoroughly to get it clean and pristine before refilling and rehanging it. We'd get a lot of great tits and blue tits but also a variety of other species. More recently we've had a problem with grey squirrels reaching feeders,and there are plenty of magpies and crows or rooks which like to inhabit the taller trees. I witnessed an amusing stand-off between an intrepid young tree-climbing cat and an indignant magpie a while back; the cat backed down eventually. The most common visitors to my garden seem to be blackbirds,whose song I love,pairs of waddling collared doves or wood pigeons and in winter a robin which loves to sit nearby whenI'm doing anything out there,in the home that I'll turn up a nice juicy worm. I've also been trying to encourage hedgehogs,of which there used to be loads but now there sadly seem to be hardly any :-( Too many cars,too many town foxes?
Get a rat terrier dog or put out sardines for the neighborhood cats. Or borrow a mink.
@@rjjcms1 tht's so nicee!
@@thunderbird7936 Thanks.
@Strummer Edwards That's true, ha, ha, ha! Stick to the rats. Cats are much worse for birds. Solve one problem and create another. Maybe a dog will keep both cats and rats away.
Thank you for all information... you have a nice voice to teach anybody like an adorable teacher
Wonderful, such pretty birds!
This is excellent advice, very helpful many thanks. Beautiful video.
Very informative
Thanks
Keep a good cap on plastic tube feeders as we had a bird got into one, got stuck and died
@@orweldavies1497 why are you taking the credit.
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That was really worth watching and watching again. Thank you
Fascinating. Marvellous video and narration. Thank you for posting. 👍🏻
Great video photography and brilliant voiceover. Well done
i love birds, thank you so much for this vedio i really like it godblessed
Thank you very much you do a great show loved every bit of it thank you look forward to seeing more
Thanks for the great tips. It’s been a fun year of bird watching.
Great tutorial, very specific and step by step, overall, a very very good tutorial, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes taking pictures, someone who loves gardening, or just basically anyone. Keep it up! +1 sub
Beautifully photographed, clear and informative. Great video - thanks!
This was one good classic video . Loved it
That was a great video! I've been feeding the local birds in my custom made bird box and feeding tray - I've even added a birdbath, and the feeder is well away from our cats. Even the pigeons use my feeder box lol. The box is on the second story of my house.
brilliant information. Thanks
What a great video...may be the loveliest one I've ever seen. Thank you for such an effort.
Great Video on how to attract birds to your garden. Very well done.
THANK YOU For all this great information. It was very helpull!
Beautiful birds. I noticed black birds have beautiful colors on their feathers, they have sharp pointed beaks to dig into grounds. Thank you.
Hello Kim how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
Super helpful video--well narrated, good info, and entertaining, too. Thanks.
Hello Sue how are you doing today happy new year 🎊 god bless you as you wished….
Excellent!!!! I agree below..so benign a voice!
Thank you so much for this video. I've found it very useful and will feed a wider range of foods and in a wider range of feeders to enable more birds to eat in my garden. Vera from Northern Ireland.
Hello! This video was really helpful to me. Thank you Love from India
A very good video for the bird lover with good, clear, informative content. Keep up the good work as this is helping a lot on bird feeding techniques.
Hi~We have some free bird feeders(US) and would like to find people who are interested in them to test them, if you are interested you can contact me, thanks!
Lovely. Getting a bird feeder today itself thank you.
We enjoy the birds that frequent our yard. Thanks for sharing.
You can't go wrong with sunflower hearts. Best all-rounder.
Great video! So much great information and entertaining!
Very informative bit. ...and I love that accent. Beautiful creatures there.
I used to work in a livefood facility. So we bread mealworms, locusts, crickets etc. During the day the place was always swarming with birds eating all the inevitable escapees 🤣 We also had a robin that flew in through the warehouse doors every morning. It would sit high on the shelving and angrily whistle until we put a few mealworms out on a tray for it, it'd come over pick them up and fly out again. Did it every morning without fail. I guess all the local birds just got used to us and all the free food 😂
I've been feeding birds for 2 years now. The biggest challenge here are grey squirrels. They're cute too but a nuisance when it comes to feeding birds. I developped my own design that make it nearly impossible for them to reach ny hanging bird feeder. It's basically a disc platform on top of the suspended feeder with a clever design that keeps it horizontal. When a squirrel tries to descend on it will swing sideways under the weight. it's quite an ingenious design and fun to watch. Some aggressive squirrel will still try to jump 2 meters to get to the feeder like a cliffhanger but picking an isolated tree branch has eliminated that. The truth is unless it's a caged system the only way to keep squirrels away is to feed them something separate. As soon as they run out of that food they will relentlessly try to assault the birdfeeder. They're very good learners and as is well known extremely persistent . If they succeed only one time, they will know how to forever. There was one such squirrel last year, i called him houdini, nothing could stop him. He would jump 3 meters, do impossible acrobatics. I even wrapped thorny vines around the feeder, black locust thorns 4 inch long on the feeder mounted rigidily vertically so it could not land on it. That was like nothing to the squirrel. I've seen houdini landing on these thorns unharmed. They have thick skin. Then finally i didn't see Houdini for a while. Then i saw a squirrel with wounds on the side that looked like a hawk talons and it looked infected he had lost all the fur on that side. But was still moving quick and energetically, but didn't see him more. I assume he died. The younger new generation of squirrel are much softer and tamer they are no match for the protection on the birdfeeder that only houdini could defeat, but he was really something. One day he even taunted me when i came to save the bird house that he was assaulting. These are intelligent animals and he knew well he was not wanted on the feeder . He did not run away he grunted stayed on a nearby tree only a few feet from me as if he was going to jump me and he might have if i had gotten closer. No he was not rabbid. Squrrel do not get rabbies they don't feed on dead animals and do not come in contact with any predator because they're too quick except raptors but birds do not get rabbies either. Houdini is no longer around. Luckily for me a neighbor is feeding the new gen of squirrel so they don't bother the birds at least for now. They have a lot to learn to get anywhere close to Houdini's skills and daring.
Squirrels are lil fuzzy buggers.
Thank you for such a well presented and informative video. I'm now subscribed 😆
Hello Ivana how are you doing today happy new year 🎊 god bless you as you wished….
thank you for great video and emphasizing the need to clean to avoid spreading the disease
Very good and informative video. I have 4 feeders out. One mesh feeder just for sultanas, but with some of the holes made bigger by snipping some wire out. Starlings love these and I get about 20 to 30 coming at one time. Next to that I have a tube feeder for suet pellets. The ones with insects and the ones with fruit. I mice these together in the same feeder, but I usually have to break up the long ones to make sure they drop down ok. Recently I have started feeding dried mealworms, and have been putting these in with the suet pellets. The Starlings go for this feeder also, so I have extended the perches each side to accommodate them by using pieces of wood with the centre drilled out and glueing them on to the perches. Next to that I have a mesh feeder, again with some holes made bigger as with the first one, for suet cubes with insects. I'm finding that this is not getting very much attention. Just the occasional Starling now and then. Next in line I have a tube feeder just for mostly Niger, but some Finch seed mix. I make sure that this one is not close to the others, as the Goldfinch that come about 6 times daily, don't like the commotion when the Starlings and Sparrows descend to feed. Recently, there have been 3 Gray Wagtails attending, which has now gone down to just one. It seems to follow the Goldfinches in when they come. To complete the picture, I have put a large tray, 20" x 16"x 4" deep, as a watering / bathing facility, and change the water and scrub it out regularly. Happy birding everyone.
This video is enormously helpful--thank you.
Hello Sue how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
Over the years I've grown increasingly fond of birds and it's interesting to note that I have seen literally every species featured in this video in close proximity to my house except blackcaps, never ever seen one. So far this year we've had wagtails, great tits, blue tits, common swifts and flycatchers nest in or around the house. One bird I'm less fond of is the great spotted woodpecker since it regularly attacks other nests.
Love the video - great close ups - I am lucky enough to be near woods and over looking a canal so get a fantastic mix of birds
This is such a great video for a beginner.Thank you. And God bless you 😊🙏
Lovely filming of birds and squirrels. I just wanted something soothing to watch like garden birds, as lockdown anxiety and negative news stories were getting to me.
Definitely something relaxing, no need to panic in life, just sit back and enjoy lol
Thanks for sharing.
Also watch birds having bath: kzhead.info/sun/iduPd9qnnH2Dp5E/bejne.html
great video. This year so many bird have visited my feeders, from Blue Jays to Nuthatches. Just today I think saw the first waxwing. chickadees, house finches and cardinals are regular visitors.
Superb images of these wonderful birds!
planting local native trees, shrubs and plants has helped me attract bids to my garden
Yes,that’s the best way
Wow very nice good job dear
Love your naration, wonderful just like Sir David Attenbrough.
Great stuff - thanks. Bird bath is essential!