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What Gift Can I Give A Bird Lover This Christmas?
Choosing gifts for any animal lovers can be quite
a pleasure, as it is often a gift that is shared by the recipient
with her animal friends or pets. This is especially so with bird lover
gifts. People who really love birds tend to want them to enhance their
gardens, to encourage real wild birds to visit time and again, or
even stay for the breeding season.
A gift for a bird lover can therefore be a gift of life, a promotion
of nature around the home, visible from the windows or while tending
the garden. Encouraging wild birds to their gardens is something that
millions do in the northern hemisphere, especially in the winter when
many wild birds suffer from food shortages.
At Christmas, cards are commonly adorned by robins, their red breasts
contrasting so vividly with the white snow. But that pretty picture
can be deceiving, with the harshness of winter depriving the robin
and other resident birds of the sustenance and warmth they need to
survive until spring. It is that threat that brings out the best in
bird lovers through those winter months.
It is not just winter, though, that encourages true bird lovers to
think about the birds. In the summer, too, many Americans and Britons
have taken to encouraging birds to nest in their gardens or on their
homes.
What Gifts Can You Choose For A Bird Lover?
Christmas comes as the coldest of winter approaches, so if you know
someone who cares for the wild birds, it can be a good time to buy
a bird gift that will help them with their feeding of the birds in
their garden. This will not only help the regular bird visitors to
their garden, but encourage new visitors too. Sometimes in the worst
winters, some rarer birds may give lots of pleasure and excitement
to the garden's owner as they come seeking food and shelter.
If you are not a bird lover yourself, and are not sure of the sort
of things you can buy as a gift, here are a few ideas for you:
Bird Feeders
Bird feeders can be the winter saviour for many birds in a cold winter.
This is especially true with small birds, who have to eat continually
from dawn to dusk to survive the night. Those nuts that are put out
in a simple nut feeder could save those birds lives on many a night
when there is frost and snow around.
The variety of bird feeders is very wide nowadays. Window feeders
have been around a long time, but they too have grown in the variety
available since the first plastic versions appeared a few decades
ago. In more recent years, some very decorative, and attractive feeders
have been created, and there is a wide choice of these available now
as gifts for your bird lover friends and relatives.
Remember also that you can get feeders that are for particular species
of bird. You will find feeders for bluebirds, hummingbirds, orioles
and other beautiful birds.
Should you decide to buy a bird feeder as a Christmas gift, it may
be a nice touch too if you added a supply of an appropriate bird food.
That could mean the happy bird lover setting the feeder up Christmas
morning, and having some very special feathered visitors for Christmas
lunch. And I’m not talking about the turkey!
Bird Houses or Nest Boxes
If you want to brighten up Christmas by looking ahead to spring, then
you will find another range of bird lover gifts with bird houses,
or nest boxes as they are more commonly called in the UK. While bird
houses may not be used until spring and summer for nesting, there
are two good reasons for setting them up early.
Firstly, some birds will use them as shelter in bad weather, so again,
this is a gift that could be a life saver. Secondly, house prospecting
amongst birds can go on long before nesting. If the bird house goes
up in December, you can bet that this new piece of prime real estate
will be eyed by many a bird passing through the garden or by the house.
Bird houses make for quite an exciting gift for bird lovers, as the
gift will bring lots of pleasures once the first birds use it for
nesting. It is also a great way to teach children about birds as they
watch the parents building the nest, the laying of the eggs, the hatching
of the nestlings, and then the feeding of the young before their departure.
A real pleasure for bird lovers young and old alike.
By: Roy
Thomsitt
This bird lover gift article was written by Roy
Thomsitt, owner and author of http://www.gifts-for-xmas.comand
http://www.xmas-ornament.com
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