Wildlife-Attracting Ideas for Small Spaces -- Part 2
This article concludes a two-part series on attracting wildlife to specific small spaces. Find part one here.
Looking for simple ideas to attract wildlife? Especially in small spaces?
A few more ideas for walls, railings, and ceilings:
The Walls
If you have an exterior wall, hang plants, feeders, birdbaths, and birdhouses with bracketed hooks or mount directly to the wall.
Bracketed Hooks
Some wall brackets are fixed in place; others rotate.
You can easily find feeders, birdbaths
, and birdhouses to hang from these wall brackets.
Wall-Mounted Feeders
Mount feeders like this statue-like feeder or this comic feeder to an exterior wall.
You can find wall feeders in almost every style.
Wall-Mounted Birdhouses
Mount birdhouses to walls for wrens, robins, swallows, and other birds.
Bat Houses
Just like birdhouses, you can mount bat houses to exterior walls.
Encouraging bats helps reduce mosquito populations, among other benefits.
Railings
Quite a few birdbaths and brackets clamp to most narrow wood and metal railings via a metal clamp. Wider railings accommodate hangers for window boxes of plants.
Bracketed Hooks
Like their wall counterparts, bracketed hooks allow you to hang feeders, birdbaths, or hanging plants. Several kinds of brackets attach to a railing.
You can buy a stationary or swivel hook, or fasten one pole with two or more hooks.
Birdbaths
Attach certain saucer-like birdbaths to a deck railing.
Hangers
For wider railings, you can find an almost infinite variety of hangers for window boxes. Use the window boxes to plant wildlife-attracting flowers.
From Above
If you have a roof, ceiling, ornamental work, or even a tree overhead, you can hang feeders, birdbaths, and plants.
Use a ceiling hook, branch hook, or looping cable around a tree or ornamental roof edging. Lower the height of the feeder or birdbath with an extension hook.







