The nest building treasure hunt.

Have you ever stopped to consider all the materials a bird must collect for its nest? Take a blackbirds shopping list. The blackbird will use fine grass for the lining of the nest, along with over one hundred sticks that are not to brittle to make the nest. Along with these materials the blackbird will also use straw for the cup of the nest, many beakfuls of moss and some damp mud will also be used to hold the nest together. Other garden birds need feathers, rootlets, spider silk, animal fur and lichens. Will they find what they need in your garden? It doesn`t mean that you have to be untidy- just leave little piles of suitable materials for birds to find rather than burning or binning them.