My 2 cents: If your home has a garden, consider planting some *thorny* bushes. People love fertile and friendly varieties with high yields. To you, thorns might

My 2 cents: If your home has a garden, consider planting some *thorny* bushes. People love fertile and friendly varieties with high yields. To you, thorns might seem like an unnecessary annoyance, but plenty of birds and small animals like to build nests there. Little birds are often ambushed by bigger ones, like magpies or jays. A nesting box can be taken over by a woodpecker, who is very happy to widen the entrance. But both of them will stay away from a wicked mass of thorns. Birds nesting there won't be the same species as in a nesting box, but filling much the same role in the ecosystem (for example lesser whitethroat).