A lovely approach to enhance the beauty and life of your outdoor space is by attracting wild birds to your yard. It’s quite pleasant to listen to their lovely songs while taking care of your plants.

Birds are not only entertaining, but some species are also skilled pest controllers, which is a huge advantage for gardeners. Garden pests, including slugs, beetles, mosquitoes, and other insects, are reported to be eaten by them.

Here are the top insect-eating birds you may want to consider attracting to your garden:

Bluebirds

Bluebirds are valued additions to any garden because of their attractiveness and tendency to consume a wide range of insects. When it’s time to lay eggs, they become voracious eaters.

You can install nesting boxes, supply water, and fill feeders with mealworms to entice bluebirds to your garden. They also enjoy eating berries.

Woodpeckers

They eat the insects they locate after drilling holes in the bark with their powerful beaks. Woodpeckers prefer deciduous trees over wood siding, despite some people’s worries that they may harm their home’s wood siding.

Install upright bird feeders, a birdbath, and nesting boxes that are the proper size for woodpeckers in your garden to attract them.

Cardinals

The song of the cardinal is among the cheeriest sounds in nature, and these lovely birds are abundant in many gardens. Since they feed insects to their young, they are unquestionably worth attracting.

Adult cardinals eat seeds and fruit, while nestlings consume insects. To draw these lovely birds, it is a good idea to have a feeder full of black oil sunflower seeds and to provide fruit on a tray feeder.