Product Description

Whatever the size, style or location of your garden, this stunning book gives you the perfect introduction to making the most of your space for birds. It provides opportunities for increasing the variety, number and regularity of birds. Written in a friendly and encouraging style, "The Garden Bird Handbook" is packed with practical advice and key information, ranging from planning and maintaining a bird-friendly garden, attracting, observing and feeding the entire range of likely visitors, through to a genuine understanding of bird behaviour. Illustrated throughout with wonderful photographs and full-colour artwork of the birds in garden settings, there is also a full and handsomely illustrated guide to garden birds, helping accurate identification. A special directory of plants that attract birds helps you plan your garden, and a month by month guide is packed with tips on what to look for. As well as the considerable pleasure to be gained from attracting and watching birds in your garden, there is an enormous contribution that you can make to their conservation. This book will help you develop the perfect garden for birds.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71412 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Stephen Moss is the author of several books, including Birds and Weather: a Birdwatcher's Guide (Hamlyn, 1995) and more recently, Attracting Birds to your Garden for New Holland (2000). A journalist and broadcaster, he writes The Guardian's monthly birdwatching column and produced the BBC Television series, Birding with Bill Oddie, for which he also co-wrote the book. He lives in West London.

Customer Reviews

Interesting and Informative

Stephen Moss has been involved in the writing of a number of books on birds and this particular volume he tries to help the reader to do the correct things in their own gardens, (be the large or small) to help not only the bird population in the garden to increase, but also what to do to attract the different species of birds.

The book is illustrated with excellent photographs and coloured artwork. There is a section on the different plants that will encourage the birds to visit the garden and a feeding programme that will attract the entire range of birds that are likely to frequent your garden. The book is written in a down to earth and friendly manner. All in all this book will be of great benefit to gardeners who are happy to share their garden with birds of all species.

Feathered Friends.
I found this book to be very well written and presented, its content was delightful to the eye and so interesting to read, i would highly recommend it to all bird lovers and i look forward to reading other books by this author.