Saturday, 5 September 2026

Garden Affair: Plants attracting Tailor birds in my Garden

 Lately Tailor birds had been the most visiting bird in my Garden during this  monsoon season. It is a well known fact that most birds have mainly two breeding and nesting season in  a year one is spring and another is monsoon season in our region and  thereby  Tailor bird has its peak of nesting season from June to August. 

While they are known  for their majestic skills of sewing leaves to make their nest it is interesting to know they choose long elliptical shaped leaves to make nest as they can sew them to make a deep and secured nest . 


                                                                   Tailor bird nest         


In last few years I had seen they choose some of the trees in my Garden that have long leaves such as Mango trees, Ashoka tree in my Garden for nesting. 

                                                                             Mango tree





Ashoka Tree


Tailor birds mostly feed upon small insects and larva and are attracted to flowering trees such as Hibiscus to prey upon bugs.                                                                                                                       
Hibiscus tree 




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4 comments:

  1. To build a nest in a leave is a cute idea. Have a good time and all the best dear Arun.
    Violetta

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  2. WOW, how fascinating, dear Arun! I've never seen nests like these before, and I've never even heard of Tailor Bird – I'm absolutely captivated by this sewing artistry.
    All the best from Austria 🤗
    Traude
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  3. Very interesting. I don’t think we have any birds here who make their nests that way.

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  4. Tailorbirds really are amazing little architects.

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