| | Share | | | Forward | | By hello@growdigital.org (Jake Rayson) on Mar 21, 2019 08:51 pm | There’s still time to make a bird nesting box for your garden. All you need is 4½ feet of 6x1, a saw, half a dozen screws, a bit of old inner tube and a hole saw. | The whole point of a forest garden is that you are working with nature to grow edible crops. Birds are a critical part of your ecosystem, eating all sorts of insects (as well as the occasional bit of soft fruit). You can encourage them into your garden by creating nest boxes. | You can download this nest box plan as a PDF file. | Be sure to site the nest box facing away from the prevailing wind, in as secluded and sheltered spot as possible, out of the reach of cats and other predators. | I adapted the plan from the RSPB, really to help my perforated memory. It’s just a 4½ feet of 6x1 plank, or 140cm length of 15cm x 2cm. | What you do need is a hole saw for drilling the hole. Different species like different sized holes: | 25mm for coal tits, marsh tits and blue tits 28mm for great tits and tree sparrows 32mm for nuthatches and house sparrows
| Thank you RSPB for all the information, and I hope someone finds this plan useful 🙂. | Read in browser » | | | Recent Articles: | Tree spacing in the forest garden | Wildflower meadow genesis | Act right now on climate | Designing a small forest garden | Flowers for pollinators in an orchard | | | |
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