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    I've just been watching a female Blackbird building her nest.

    I put a good pile of homemade compost (not completely crumbly, still chunkyish) on top of my Wisteria pot and she's flying backward and forward with beakfulls of it.

    So just goes to show that homemade compost really has a multitude of great uses.

    Birds also love dog hair to line their nests with too. Every Spring I put clumps out around the garden, under bushes, in trees and in a fat ball feeder, it's so funny to watch them pulling it apart!
    Nestled somewhere in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Good soil, strong winds and 4 Giant Puffballs! https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...lies/smile.gif
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    Good for you, helping the "wildies"

    I expect there are quite a few worms in the compost too - easy meal for a blackbird.

    I too, put out dog hair for nesting material, surprising how brave they get too, they come quite close to the house to collect it.
    A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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    • #3
      My 'rough stuff' in compost terms, goes in the bottom of bean trenches. However, before I fill them in again I let the air (and blackbirds) get at it for a day or two. Hog heaven for a bird!
      Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

      www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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      • #4
        I've got several wire hanging baskets that have the fibre sort of lining, at this time of the year they are always getting attacked by the birds for nesting material. Little devils
        Last edited by SMS6; 18-04-2008, 02:50 PM.

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        • #5
          4 weeks ago 2 Robins built a nest in a box on a tree in our front garden. They hatched 2 weeks ago and the pair of Robins worked so hard feeding them, then on Tuesday they all left the box, only to be attacked by a Blackbird, but we think they all got away. After 4 weeks of hard work the next day the same pair have started to build another nest in the same box. They really are gluttons for punishment! It has been really interesting watching them.

          Janet M

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          • #6
            I emptied out the old nests from the boxes and found one that had housed Great tits lined with the hair from my Ginger tomcat
            Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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            • #7
              Last week the Jackdaws were in my garden ripping strips off the fleece and flying off with it for nests. Has anyone else seen this.

              From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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              • #8
                No, but I saw a great tit attacking a small piece of capillary matting I'd left out to dry! Its now got a hole in it where it was pecked away...grrr!
                To see a world in a grain of sand
                And a heaven in a wild flower

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                • #9
                  coconut hanging basket liners are the favourite in our garden with sparrows and ravens
                  my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ

                  hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is a whole lot better

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                  • #10
                    Ive filled one of those holders that usually have fat balls in them with horse hair from my friends horses. The blue tits who have come back for their second year to their box in the tree certainly appreciate this. Bernie aka DDL
                    Bernie aka DDL

                    Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things

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