Feathering the Nest - From Attracting Birds in your Garden - by John Dengate
'It is good to know that you can give birds a helping hand during the breeding season by offering a range of natural and artificial nesting materials. Piles of suitable material should be left at various spots in the garden where they are out of reach of cats but easily accessible to the birds.
Each species needs its own nesting materials, so whatever you provide, there is likely to be a local bird that will use it. Keep trying different items until you find the most popular ones.
Body feather are used to line many nests. They are soft and provide essential insulation to help keep the eggs warm. Twigs and sticks are the foundation of most nests and are popular with a wide range of birds.
Nesting birds love pulling threads from scraps of fabric. Not good to use polyester, nylon or any thread that is not easily broken as it may end up wrapped around a chick's legs and cause some very unpleasant problems. A loosely woven bag of goodies hung in a tree makes the birds' task much easier'.
This is something we would not necessarily think about doing for birds, even we do often give seed, crumbs or meat to various birds.
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