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Gardening with the RHS

For the Love of Birds

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re wrapping up warm and heading out into our gardens to take a moment to really appreciate our garden birds. Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore gives us a masterclass on recognising the calls of common birds at this time of year. Writer and wildlife gardening guru Kate Bradbury shares her top tips for making a bird-friendly garden. And finally, we delve into the story behind the remarkable number of American songbirds that made it across the Atlantic this autumn.  Presenter: Guy Barter Contributors: Gary Moore, Kate Bradbury, and Rob Jaques Links: Birds in your garden Plants for birds RHS Wildlife Gardening for everyone and everything,  RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond Garden BirdWatch BTO’s BirdTrack Migration Blog

Transcript

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0:00.0

Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.

0:05.1

Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.

0:09.3

The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of...

0:14.7

The best hiding place ever.

0:17.4

Booth!

0:18.2

Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.

0:21.6

It's the greatest show in Earth, at an RHS garden near you.

0:25.6

Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds. I think a garden isn't complete without its wildlife.

0:41.3

I think birds are a huge way in to understanding and seeing the wildlife in our gardens.

0:47.3

You know, it's very visible.

0:48.3

I've been known for saying that I believe that birdsong should be prescribed on the NHS because it can absolutely

0:56.0

change your life. And just ensuring the birds are okay is just another layer of that. It's

1:02.0

another layer of love. Birds help create the layered feel and texture of a garden.

1:13.6

They produce a soundscape that situates us in time and place.

1:17.6

They disperse our seeds, pollinate our flowers and help control our populations of insects.

1:23.6

And perhaps more to the point, they bring about moments of wonder and awe.

1:30.3

There's hardly anything that compares to watching a blackbird picket holly berries, a red-wing

1:36.0

drink from a pond, or a blue tit feed caterpillars to her young.

1:43.0

So this week, we're wrapping up warm and heading out into our gardens to take a moment

1:47.8

to really appreciate our garden birds. Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore will give us a master

1:54.8

class on recognising the calls of birds at this time of year. Writer and wildlife gardening

2:00.6

guru Kate Bradbury will share her top tips for making a bird-friendly

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