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Bird Food Blog

Welcome to the Haith's bird food blog - featuring posts from the team & special guests. If you'd like to share your nature notes with our readers, please email enquiries@haiths.com for more information.

Mosses and how to create your own miniature rainforest

Mosses are to be found almost everywhere in Britain- in towns and cities (see previous blog) as well as in villages; on trees, on the ground, on walls, on roofs; on stones and rocks; in woodland, in marshland and on hillsides.

Playgrounds and Nature – what’s the link?

We all know what pleasure we get from playgrounds. Children find them a wonderful place in which to relax and to enjoy themselves, especially when school has ended for the day.

Armchair naturalists should also be nature detectives

We two armchair naturalists are fortunate insofar as birdlife is concerned. From the windows of our tiny cottage we can see much activity.

Easter Observations

Sunday 12th April 2020
Easter, but it doesn’t feel like it because of the personal, national and global concern about Covid-19 and growing number of deaths. However, as the Queen said in her Easter message “Easter isn’t cancelled; indeed, we need Easter as much as ever”.

Helping armchair naturalists

Sunday 22nd March 2020

Today is Mothering Sunday (“Mother’s Day”) and the sun is shining. Alas, because of Covid-19, many mothers will not see their offspring and will have to rely on a ‘phone call or contact by internet

Comment on British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) research

The recent report by staff of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), "The composition of British bird communities is associated with long-term garden bird feeding", published in Nature Communications 10, 21 May 2019, provides evidence that providing supplementary diets to garden birds in Britain both supports and enhances the numbers of our native avifauna.