Biodiversity in your Backyard (Cont. 5)

How to Lure Birds to your Garden 

Seed Eaters
 

Yellow Finch

Examples are the beautiful:

• Waxbills

• Finches

• Firefinches

• Canaries, and 

• Bronze Manikins. 

These are best attracted by leaving some tufts of grass to grow tall enough to set seed. 
Seed-eating birds frequent most grass species. 

Ruby Grass

 Attractive grasses for the garden are: 

• Ruby Grass (Melinis nerviglumis)

• Small Panicum (Panicum ecklonii)

• Green Panic (Panicum maximum), and  

• Common Reed (Phragmitis australis). 

Ideal would be to have several species that flower in different seasons, so that there is seed available throughout the year. 

Alternatively, and more practical, you can also attract seed eaters to your garden by offering bird seed on a feeding platform. 

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