Birds like several different things which you can add to your garden area, regardless of its size, or even to your small patio garden to lure, or draw them into your vision, among them,
some cover, something to use to nest with, a sure supply of food and water for bathing and drinking.

One or more of these additions to your garden will assure that your feathered friends will visit you regularly and if you add all of them, most likely you will find yourself host to many nesting birds over the course of the summer. A patio garden even if frequently used, will provide enough cover for the bird friends to visit and feed in the afternoon or evening hours when the patio is least used.  Birds will also nest in the eaves above it if they are provided with food and water supplies not far away.

Lure birds into your garden with a seed table or bird feeder, making sure that you place it in a wind sheltered area such as under an arbor or trellis, or under a tree on a solidly implanted post. Building a small flat seed table, or securing one to your patio outside a window is the perfect way to bring in birds to an area where you will most likely be able to view them.

Fill your seed table with millet, to attract ground feeding birds such as mourning doves, or sparrows, or raisins for fruit eating birds, such as Robins and Bluebirds. Black oil sunflower seeds are favorites for cardinals, bluejays and chickadees, and if you want to draw in woodpeckers and others, add a variety of apple, pear, grapefruit and oranges. You can sprinkle the seeds on the ground beneath a tree if you like, and lure in such birds as thrush and other low cover birds.

If you choose to leave your seed heads to grow on the flowers for the birds feed, then remember not to deadhead the plants and to plant choices such as asters, cosmos, sunflowers, zinnia and coreopsis.
Regardless of whether your yard or garden is an acre, or only a few feet wide, you have the capacity to provide a small sheltered space that will bring in feathered friends for your enjoyment.
A few seed cakes, nailed or adhered to the wall of your patio or hung from a tree branch will bring in birds as well.

 

The music of the birds as they eat from the flowery table will be a
sound you will hear even on the coldest days of winter time.

Don’t forget to add a warmable bird bath to your garden, and summer
or winter it will serve the birds well.

Place a low watt bulb under a clay pot and run an extension cord to
the pot, setting a pan of water on top of the clay pot.,

The water will stay above freezing for the birds to bathe in summer
and drink in winter.

Don’t forget to use a ground fault extension cord for this project.

Grow some inviting hedges which the birds can find cover in, such
as honeysuckle, blackbery, yew and hawthorn, to give them places to
perch and sometimes even to nest.

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