Want to Attract Birds? Change the Placement of Your Bird Houses!

TOP WILD BIRD PRODUCTS

You may have some bird houses in your backyard, but no birds are interested in them.  This a common problem people have with backyard bird houses.  What is happening is that you are not placing the bird houses in locations that are appealing to wild birds.  Luckily, there is a proven science that will attract more birds to your backyard.  Let’s look at some ways you can attract more birds to stay in your bird houses.

The first important thing to know is that birds like to use bird houses for nesting.  You need to mimic man made bird houses as similar to bird made bird houses as possible.  When birds create their own nesting areas, they usually build them between dead trees or branches.  This means that their nests are fully exposed to sunlight.  However, when people place bird houses in their backyard, they usually place them under trees with a lot of foliage.  This prevents the bird houses from being exposed to sunlight.  Your main priority when placing bird houses in your background is to be sure the area gets a good amount of sunlight.

Another way to attract many birds to your yard is to put out a variety of sizes of bird houses.  Small bird houses will attract smaller birds.  Larger bird houses will attract larger birds.  The Cedar Wren/Chickadee House, shown to the right, has the preferred dimensions of small birds like wrens and chickadees.  They prefer to have a house with a small entrance hole, and the Cedar Wren/Chickadee House‘s entrance hole has a diameter of about 1 1/4 inches.  Larger bird houses can attract birds such as bluebirds and swallows.  The CopperTop Bluebird House is a large bird house with dimensions of 7.2 X 9 X 13.5 inches.  The diameter of the entrance is approximately 1 9/16 inches.  If you are interested in attracting woodpeckers, you will be glad to know that they like a variety of sizes of bird houses.

The last thing you need to know is that when birds are nesting, they are territorial.  There is more territoriality within species than between species.  This means that you should be setting out similar sized birds feeders as far apart as possible.