Chris Mead A ll gardens can offer nest boxes for small birds. Even the tiniest gardens should have a box or two and the larger your garden the more you can provide and the greater the variety of birds you will house.
T here are two main types of boxes to consider.
The first and most straightforward is the tit box which has a hole into an enclosed box. The second and more problematic is the open-fronted box for Robins, Spotted Flycatchers and the like. The problems they pose are very different. M illions of broods of birds have been reared in Britain in home-made nest boxes knocked together from spare wood. Designs are legion and many are published each year for National Nest Box Week in February.