THE HISTORY OF BIRD FEEDING
Humans have always felt an intrinsic connection to birds. They are in our artwork, our music, our language, and the greatest joy for many of us – our gardens. One of the best ways to encourage birds to use our gardens is to put out clean, dry food for them, but when did humans start feeding wild birds? And what does the future look like for feeding the birds in our gardens? Find out more in our latest blog post below.
We were recently featured in Gardens Illustrated with a competition to win one of five of our recently launched Cleaner Window Feeders. You can enter the competition by clicking on the below button. We were also very pleased to be featured highly, by the same magazine, in their review of the best feeders for you and your garden.
OUR MEETING WITH GARDEN WILDLIFE HEALTH
We were extremely grateful to meet with representatives from the RSPB, BTO, and ZSL, who, along with Froglife, make up Garden Wildlife Health collaborative project.
The purpose of the meeting was to share our ideas on how to tackle the existential threat facing our garden birds, and to get an understanding on how the project and its members are helping too.
We gave a presentation including: our goals around reversing the spread of disease on bird feeders and raising awareness of the problems; a demonstration of our feeders, highlighting the features that mitigate the causes of disease spreading on feeders, followed by some new product ideas in various stages of development.
Following the meeting we’re more keen than ever to ensure that we are listening to the scientific evidence that already exists regarding how disease spreads in gardens. Our products are driven by the science and common sense, and we’ll continue to use both with future developments.
We will be reaching out to our community, with regular surveys, to gain a better understanding of how people support wildlife in their gardens, and hope to create some comprehensive resources from this, combined with feedback from Garden Wildlife Health.
We will continue to invest in high welfare solutions, and in raising awareness of the problems facing our garden wildlife. Alongside this we’ll champion the work done by the excellent people at GWH, a vital resource for us all.
Our Window Feeders are now available to purchase for just £23.95. You can read a full review on The Blackberry Garden website below. Plus watch this space for news about our new seed subscription service.
