{"id":2338,"date":"2025-01-01T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2025-03-06T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:52:34","slug":"why-do-so-many-birds-visit-the-organic-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/warum-besuchen-so-viele-voegel-den-bio-balkon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do so many birds visit the orga\u00adnic bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I show what gre\u00adat obser\u00adva\u00adtions are pos\u00adsi\u00adble when a bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny is desi\u00adgned to be clo\u00adse to natu\u00adre. I want to make you want to crea\u00adte oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties for birds. To make the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny look inte\u00adres\u00adt\u00ading from a bird\u2019s point of view, to pay them a first visit. If they then find seeds on the wild plants or sun\u00adflowers, for exam\u00adp\u00adle, the\u00adre is bird food available and they feel safe, they will be hap\u00adpy to return regu\u00adlar\u00adly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of birds visit my bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. So far, 24 bird spe\u00adci\u00ades have visi\u00adted my two inner-city bal\u00adco\u00adnies in Ber\u00adlin (4 m\u00b2 + 5 m\u00b2). That is a lar\u00adge num\u00adber. The fact that the\u00adre is a chest\u00adnut tree in front of my bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny is cer\u00adtain\u00adly an advan\u00adta\u00adge. Also, an exten\u00adsi\u00adon of the Wil\u00admers\u00addorf public park is only 200 m away. Gar\u00adden owners have writ\u00adten to me say\u00ading that they are nowhe\u00adre near this num\u00adber. But I know of many other inner-city bal\u00adco\u00adnies with over 15 recor\u00added bird spe\u00adci\u00ades. We have a lot of birds in our cities. If we obser\u00adve them from our bal\u00adco\u00adnies, we invi\u00adte them to join us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I show what gre\u00adat obser\u00adva\u00adtions are pos\u00adsi\u00adble when a bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny is desi\u00adgned clo\u00adse to natu\u00adre, sup\u00adple\u00admen\u00adted with food for the birds. I want to make you want to crea\u00adte some\u00adthing for the birds on your bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. To make the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny look inte\u00adres\u00adt\u00ading and invi\u00adting from a bird\u2019s point of view, to pay them a first visit. If they then find seeds on the wild plants or sun\u00adflowers, for exam\u00adp\u00adle, and put down food, and if they also feel safe, they will come back. We can watch from behind the win\u00addow. Or even bet\u00adter, sit\u00adting direct\u00adly on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. I love sit\u00adting on my beau\u00adtiful red\u00addish-brown woo\u00adden bench and abo\u00adve me the spar\u00adrows are play\u00ading around at the fee\u00adders or loo\u00adking for seeds in the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny boxes. The tits are just as busy. It\u2019s a real tre\u00adat for me. It brings me rela\u00adxa\u00adti\u00adon. We\u2019\u00adre doing some\u00adthing good for our\u00adsel\u00adves and the bird\u00adlife too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Birds
The spar\u00adrow band loves sun\u00adflower stems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The
The gold\u00adfinch flew up seve\u00adral times a day at exact\u00adly the time when the sun\u00adflower seeds were ripe for nibbling. How the\u00adse birds always noti\u00adce that. On other bal\u00adco\u00adnies, gold\u00adfin\u00adches fly up when the corn\u00adflower seeds are ripe. Natu\u00adral won\u00adders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Birds love bran\u00adches sti\u00adcking out or up from the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny, sticks sti\u00adcking out from the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny rai\u00adling, bran\u00adches stuck in plan\u00adters or bran\u00adches tied to the rai\u00adling with cable ties.<\/strong> They can make a sto\u00adpo\u00adver the\u00adre and then fly to the fee\u00adding sites. My son built a so-cal\u00adled \u201cRum\u00adschi\u00adbum\u00adschi\u201d in an art pro\u00adject at school. Art made from bran\u00adches joi\u00adn\u00aded tog\u00ade\u00adther. The name alo\u00adne is so beau\u00adtiful, and then the\u00adre are the works of art. The child\u00adren coll\u00adec\u00adted bran\u00adches, bark and seeds. They put their tre\u00adasu\u00adres tog\u00ade\u00adther: glued or tied or nai\u00adled them. They real\u00adly had a lot of fun. We moun\u00adted the \u201cRum\u00adschi\u00adbum\u00adschi\u201d on a cor\u00adner of the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny para\u00adpet. Secu\u00adre\u00adly tied seve\u00adral times with cable ties. The birds love to land right the\u00adre on the \u201cRum\u00adschi\u00adbum\u00adschi\u201d. So this art pro\u00adject has been well recei\u00adved and app\u00adre\u00adcia\u00adted. I invi\u00adte you to make your own per\u00adso\u00adnal \u201cRum\u00adschi\u00adbum\u00adschis\u201d and also Insect nes\u00adt\u00ading aids<\/a>. The most beau\u00adtiful obser\u00adva\u00adtions are pos\u00adsi\u00adble. Throug\u00adhout the year. Throug\u00adhout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Birds
The \u201cRum\u00adschi\u00adbum\u00adschi\u201d made by the son. 8 years later, it still exists, but had to be re-tied up with a honey\u00adcomb tie. The birds still like to use it as their first landing point.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The
A high\u00adlight was when the star sang \u201cRum\u00adschi\u00adbum\u00adschi\u201d in the mor\u00adning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Birds
The green\u00adfinch sits on the \u201cRum\u00adschi\u00adbum\u00adschi\u201d.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The black\u00adbird also likes to land at the \u201cRum\u00adschi\u00adbum\u00adschi\u201d, but then likes to look fur\u00adther down for seeds and sim\u00adply sit for a long time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The birds love trees on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny<\/strong> and shrubs<\/strong>. They love sit\u00adting on my five Colum\u00adnar apple trees<\/a> or the bee tree. On the snack bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny I have a cor\u00adner with fruit trees: cho\u00adke\u00adber\u00adries, rock pears, black\u00adber\u00adries, Chi\u00adne\u00adse ber\u00adries and raspber\u00adries. The house spar\u00adrows love to sit in the\u00adre. They can chat\u00adter the\u00adre. If I open the door from the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny or bath\u00adroom, the\u00adre is a com\u00admo\u00adti\u00adon and all the birds fly away imme\u00addia\u00adte\u00adly. Plant trees!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A
This is the cor\u00adner with cho\u00adke\u00adber\u00adry and rock pear, black\u00adber\u00adry, raspber\u00adry, bee tree and Chi\u00adna ber\u00adry, which is very popu\u00adlar with birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Greenfinch
Young green\u00adfinch on one of the five pil\u00adlar apple trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Such obser\u00adva\u00adtions are par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar\u00adly nice in times of green\u00adfinch mor\u00adta\u00adli\u00adty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Withe\u00adred, dried out plants are left stan\u00adding.<\/strong> The birds love to land the\u00adre, loo\u00adking for the seeds<\/strong> e.g. of sun\u00adflowers, tree spin\u00adach \u2018Magen\u00adta Spreen\u2019. Won\u00adderful obser\u00adva\u00adtions. Howe\u00adver, they still like to land the\u00adre to fly to the fee\u00adding sites. The\u00adse are regu\u00adlar sto\u00adpo\u00advers. The\u00adre are also lar\u00adge sticks or bam\u00adboo poles in seve\u00adral bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny boxes, whe\u00adre the tits like to land. I pull toma\u00adtoes and beau\u00adtiful\u00adly flowe\u00adring sweet pota\u00adtoes up to the cei\u00adling on strings. Once they have dried out, the birds like to land on them in win\u00adter. From the\u00adre they fly to the fee\u00adders or make a tour of the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny boxes for insects or fal\u00adlen food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Birds
Spar\u00adrows at the fee\u00adder. A green\u00adfinch sits in the chest\u00adnut tree. The plant pot coas\u00adters moun\u00adted under the fee\u00adding sta\u00adti\u00adon catch food scraps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The birds love the stems of the sun\u00adflowers and here also the tree spin\u00adach \u2018Magen\u00adta Spreen\u2019. The seeds are picked out indi\u00advi\u00addu\u00adal\u00adly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The blue tit likes to sit on the string on which the toma\u00adto grows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Gre\u00adat tit at the herb han\u00adging pot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fee\u00adding sta\u00adti\u00adons<\/strong> with shel\u00adled sun\u00adflower seeds hang from my cei\u00adling. The\u00adre is also a dis\u00adpen\u00adser with pea\u00adnuts, the extre\u00adme\u00adly popu\u00adlar tit dum\u00adplings and coco\u00adnut hal\u00adves fil\u00adled with fat food. The\u00adre are spar\u00adrows, green\u00adfin\u00adches, blue tits and gre\u00adat tits up the\u00adre, and the gre\u00adat spot\u00adted woodpe\u00adcker was the\u00adre more often. I have set up ano\u00adther fee\u00adding sta\u00adti\u00adon on my bench with shel\u00adled sun\u00adflower seeds and pea\u00adnut but\u00adter, which is very popu\u00adlar with the black\u00adbirds, star\u00adlings and black red\u00adstarts. The pla\u00adte of oat\u00adme\u00adal and rai\u00adsins on the flo\u00ador is fre\u00adquen\u00adted by black\u00adbirds, star\u00adlings and robins. A tree\u00adcree\u00adper often scur\u00adries around on the flo\u00ador, and I have even seen two at the same time. The\u00adre is also a Water trough<\/strong>. The squir\u00adrels often drink the\u00adre. The water trough han\u00adging from the cei\u00adling was not accept\u00aded by the birds. Not even when it was on the bench. I haven\u2019t yet found a place whe\u00adre the birds feel safe. I will keep try\u00ading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blue tits often perch on the dead toma\u00adto plant or on the tomato\u2019s upward growth cord.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This flir\u00adta\u00adtious gre\u00adat tit was nes\u00adt\u00ading on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. The nes\u00adt\u00ading box is curr\u00adent\u00adly occu\u00adp\u00adied by blue tits again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The den\u00adse vege\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny pro\u00adba\u00adb\u00adly \u201cpro\u00adtects\u201d against pige\u00adons. The win\u00adter befo\u00adre last, I had a lot of pige\u00adons on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. I let them snack brief\u00adly, then I sho\u00adoed them away becau\u00adse my ten\u00adan\u00adcy agree\u00adment con\u00adta\u00adins a ban on fee\u00adding pige\u00adons. In most big cities, the\u00adre is a ban on fee\u00adding pige\u00adons, with no distinc\u00adtion bet\u00adween urban pige\u00adons and wild pige\u00adons. We city dwel\u00adlers should be awa\u00adre of this ban. This win\u00adter the pige\u00adons are again sit\u00adting on the para\u00adpet of the house oppo\u00adsi\u00adte and direct\u00adly in front of the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny in the chest\u00adnut tree. The bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny is com\u00adple\u00adte\u00adly unin\u00adte\u00adres\u00adt\u00ading for them, pro\u00adba\u00adb\u00adly becau\u00adse of the den\u00adse vege\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bird
House spar\u00adrow and green\u00adfinch over flowe\u00adring kale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The\u00adse were my mea\u00adsu\u00adres to get nice bird visits. The birds poop around, of cour\u00adse, which is not so nice on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. The\u00adre is food lying around, they are not yet so well beha\u00adved. Sin\u00adce I\u2019ve been using unpee\u00adled sun\u00adflower seeds, there\u2019s less lying around. The black\u00adbirds are having a ter\u00adri\u00adble time dig\u00adging around in the plan\u00adters. They are loo\u00adking for the tasty ear\u00adthworms that work for me. The many bird visi\u00adtors are the\u00adr\u00ade\u00adfo\u00adre some\u00adwhat at odds with the cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adti\u00adon of vege\u00adta\u00adbles, I don\u2019t want to hide that. This dicho\u00adto\u00admy can occur. I think it\u2019s worth being able to watch the birds from such a clo\u00adse distance. It gives me a huge sen\u00adse of rela\u00adxa\u00adti\u00adon. As well as a huge joy, which I am so hap\u00adpy to share with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book recom\u00admen\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For me, this is the best book on the sub\u00adject by Prof. Peter Bert\u00adhold and his wife Gabrie\u00adle Mohr:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I con\u00adduc\u00adted an inter\u00adview with Prof. Bert\u00adhold for the Online Orga\u00adnic Bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny Con\u00adgress 2017: What is the ide\u00adal bird food? Tit dum\u00adplings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What tips do you have for bird wat\u00adching and fee\u00adding on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny? Are you or have you per\u00adhaps also been in a dilem\u00adma bet\u00adween bird fee\u00adding and self-suf\u00adfi\u00adci\u00aden\u00adcy, becau\u00adse both are not ide\u00adal at the same time?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have been asked to pro\u00advi\u00adde more \u201cevi\u00addence\u201d that the tree spin\u00adach \u2018Magen\u00adta Spreen\u2019 is inde\u00aded used as a natu\u00adral\u00adly grown food source by house spar\u00adrows and gold\u00adfin\u00adches. Don\u2019t cut any\u00adthing down in the fall, don\u2019t fall into the \u201ctidy\u00ading and tidy\u00ading mad\u00adness\u201d. Our shrubs, stems and fal\u00adlen lea\u00adves are win\u00adtering grounds for insects. Birds pick out the seeds. Here even on the win\u00addows\u00adill on the 6th flo\u00ador in Ber\u00adlin-City. Gar\u00adden casual\u00adly \u2014 it\u2019s good for us and the city ani\u00admals. Best wis\u00adhes to the hard-working gar\u00adden\u00aders from the Char\u00adno com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty gar\u00adden<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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