Good night for anyone, i m the owner of a small orchard in the village of Niguelas in Granada (southern Spain) which i m trying to convert on an interesting and attractive place for wildlife.
First trouble i ve found i want to place there a bird feeder but there are some cats loitering over there and i m afriad they could attack bird as they stay on the feeder table...
https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/wildlife-questions/204686/help-to-attract-wildlife-please/1262467#1262467
There would have overflying some other threat for my future bird feeders, but they take part of the free laws of nature..
Jim
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Hi Jim , great hearing from you as always. Here you are some pics of the orchard and views from it. Facing east, there is a sort of microclimate created throughout the small orchard as the
the rock wall manages to stop north winds when winter comes in and surrounding trees provide appreciated shades in summer time. You can see at the first pic the room where i am thinking
to put bird feeders, may be to the right as far as possible from the rocky wall...which level could be correct for the feeder table? i was thinking about some 1,8 metres over the floor.
Thanks for your help
Your welcome, sadly I can't help more David, and looking at a Golden Oriol's nest I don't think they would use an alternative but I could be wrong.
Golden oriole nest.
On the other hand, Robbo told me its idea about to provide the orchard with ponds.
I ve thought perhaps it could be as a type of drinking fountain for birds, offering me the chance of taking some good pictures if i am able to build a small wooden structure like this one:
The main drawback i ve noticed with such handmade pond is the window pane that it needs, a kind of lens which let you watching birds behind the window but they cant see you..
Does anyone know about those kind of lens being applied to birdwatching?
Thanks in advance
Wildlife starts to come around my orchard, here you are some pictures taken from there