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