A comprehensive guide to help viewers learn tips and techniques to enable them to enjoy the birds that visit their gardens.

"Bird Feeders
For most people who develop an interest in birds in later life, the fascination usually originated in childhood feeding bread to garden birds, or ducks on the local pond. However, for ornithologists and garden birdwatchers alike feeding has become an altogether more sophisticated business, as we learn more about the various species of birds and what they like to eat, as well as technological advances in methods for offering everything from seeds and nuts to suet balls.

In this programme we’ll be featuring the top feeders, and whether you’re dangling them from an elaborate garden feeding station or a simple window box, the results will be astounding.

Birds to Treasure
It’s a fact! Bird watching is addictive and after discovering how to attract and feed garden birds, as well as learning how to identify them, you’ll already have developed a keen interest in ornithology, and be ready to expand your knowledge further.

In “Birds to Treasure”, you’ll be thrilled to find bird watching tips and techniques for taking your knowledge a little further afield. Whether a woodland walk or a trip to a wetland sanctuary, in this programme you’ll see the kind of species well worth looking out for as your bird watching skills develop.

Everyday Birds
Having followed the advice in “Bird Feeders”, the next requirement for any would be bird watcher will be a good understanding of how to identify birds. There may be plenty of excellent guides available, but working out the difference between napes and wing bars can be a little daunting at the outset, however, this richly visual programme will show you precisely how its done.

And of course what better way to work out whether you’re looking at a Great Tit or a Gold Finch than on film. Once you’ve mastered the basics there will be the opportunity to see a selection of the most commonly spotted birds in Great Britain, and the ways in which you can make a definite identification with every confidence.
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