BLUE tits, robins and wagtails could soon be setting up home in your garden.

The birds, as well as other species, will be on the search for new homes during spring.

The Countryside Service is encouraging Worcester residents to help our feathered friends settle down by putting bird boxes up in their gardens.

Wade Muggleton, senior countryside officer said: "A bird box is one of the easiest and most positive ways you can help wildlife.

"A bird box which costs around £10 or less will provide a home to a family of birds for many years.

"By putting up bird boxes in gardens that have no natural nest sites, such as hollow trees, we enable birds to live and breed where they would otherwise not be able to."

Staff at Worcester Woods Country Park, off Spetchley Road, will be putting up three bird boxes around the old orchard during National Nest Box Week, Tuesday, February 14 to Tuesday, February 21.