Nature’s Feast, one of the UK’s leading wild bird care brands, are celebrating Nest Box Week 2011 by offering top tips for the nesting season and a chance to win a FREE Nature’s Feast Nest Box.

Nest Box Week 14th February 2011
Nest Box Week is launched on Valentine’s Day every year, with the aim of encouraging people to put up nest boxes to help protect wild birds, as many nesting sites are fast disappearing, due to gardens and woods diminishing.

By putting up a nest box in your garden, you can not only help with valuable conservation, but you will also have the pleasure of seeing wild birds from the comfort of your home.

What you can do to help your wild birds:

• Now’s the perfect time to put up a nest box in your garden in preparation for the nesting season.

• Nest boxes provide shelter and a place to breed and raise a brood for the spring and summer months. Place your nest box in a quiet, safe place away from any other bird boxes or tables, to help protect them against predators and keep them sheltered from the elements. Preferably position your nest box between two and five metres up.

• Nest boxes not only provide shelter for wild birds, but it is an activity that can involve the whole family. Eco-friendly, educational and an activity that won’t peck away at your pocket, families can enjoy setting up their nest boxes and watching their garden wildlife ’soar’.

Your chance to win a Nature’s Feast Nest Box.
In celebration of Nest Box Week, Nature’s Feast are offering you the chance to win a FREE Nest Box in time for the nesting season.
To enter the FREE prize draw simply email your details to:

competition@naturesfeast.co.uk

For further information on Nest Box Week 2011 please visit the Nature’s Feast website, where you will find plenty of helpful hints and tips, on how to provide the best in wild bird care for Nest box Week 2011 and all year round.

Tel: (0800) 093 9123

Here is another ingenious concept product from the Concept Products Awards Scheme at the Ideal Home Show - The Trellis Tower by Jonny Wray, age 22, from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University.

The Trellis Tower is a sparrow habitat designed to attract more sparrows into urban gardens by providing safe and protected nesting boxes.

It is a wall-mounted tower which creates a community for the birds, providing shelter in the multiple bird boxes.

The structure is designed to encourage the growth of plants, covering the tower to disguise the boxes from potential predators, as well as attracting insects upon which the sparrows may feed.

The Trellis Tower is on display in the Concept Living Area at the Ideal Home Show, where visitors are being asked to vote for their favourite product in the Scheme. The award of £2000 will be presented to the winning designer on Wednesday 22nd March.

web: http://www.idealhomeshow.co.uk
tel: (0870) 606 6080