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Feed a feathered friend this winter
There are usually some very cold days in January and February with few natural sources of bird food. Help birdlife pull through to the Spring
by making your own bird feeders from empty plastic milk bottles, writes Swindon Wildlife Officer Neil Pullen for Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.
Wash a litre milk bottle, leave while anything that £2.50 a bag, you'll be ferent bird species. Windfall ap-
the top on and carefully cut two U- falls on the ground helping wildlife twice. ples are a magnet for blackbirds
shaped flaps about two centime- should be eaten by A share of the profit goes and songthrushes, both of which
tres from the bottom, on opposite ground-feeders such as back into the Wildlife are declining.
sides of the bottle. Bend the flap robins, dunnocks and Trust work across the Birds also need a constant sup-
upwards to a 90-degree angle (to sparrows. UK. ply of clean, fresh water from a
stop all the food falling out!). Put a One common birds It's important to bird-bath or any shallow container.
stick or piece of dowelling through such as the house wash out the bird And by the way, reusing the milk
the bottle, just under the flaps, as a sparrow are becoming feeder with hot soapy bottle means it does not sit in a
perch. Pierce two holes in the bot- a threatened species Tree sp 2rrow water every couple of landfill site for hundreds of years.
by And v Hay
tle top and put string through. and the domestic gar- weeks. And try to hang For more information contact
Now buy some wild bird seed den is now one of their most im- your bird-feeder in a place where Neil Pullen, Swindon Environment
mix, and add some black sunflower portant havens. cats will find it difficult to pounce. Centre, 47b Fleet Street, Swindon.
seeds. This will attract green- If you buy your bird seed from the It's a good idea to provide a Tel: 526228 or mail wwtswindon@
finches, chaffinches and bluetits, Swindon Wildlife Project Office at wide range of food to attract dif- cix.co.uk

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