. How to attract wild birds about the home . Bluebird Feeding Young. Berlepsch House on Phoebes will occupy four inch square shchcs put upunder the eaves of buildings. Barn and eave swallows will often build their mud nestson narrow cleats fastened in like situations. Robins will occupy open shelves, as will catbirds andbrown thrashers, if placed in shrubbery. The devices described, while they will help increase thebird life about ones home, there remains much to do to makeones place attractive to nesting birds. Planting to Attract Birds Modern landscape gardening makes little provisio
. How to attract wild birds about the home . Bluebird Feeding Young. Berlepsch House on Phoebes will occupy four inch square shchcs put upunder the eaves of buildings. Barn and eave swallows will often build their mud nestson narrow cleats fastened in like situations. Robins will occupy open shelves, as will catbirds andbrown thrashers, if placed in shrubbery. The devices described, while they will help increase thebird life about ones home, there remains much to do to makeones place attractive to nesting birds. Planting to Attract Birds Modern landscape gardening makes little provision fornest-hunting birds. Tangled roadside thickets are cut downto be supplanted by evergreens or thinh- planted shrubber)-,or perhaps by a wall or wire Ooe-Year-Old Whorls Recently Pruned t.)ld Whorls Recently Pruned Briery patches overgrown with wild grape and othervines are eliminated to make room for great stretches ofclosely cropped lawn. Little thought is given to the need ofquiet, secluded spots where birds can build their nests andrear their young free from inquisitive young people and safefrom their many enemies. No suggestions that can be made will help to increasethe bird population as much as an area planted with shrubsand trees which will offer secure nest sites. Once planted, itmust be left severely alone, save to prune to stimulate densergrowth and the creation of whorls of stems or branches. Proper pruning is clearly shown in the illustrations. Ty-ing stems of shrubs increases the number of saddles or 25
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