How to Choose the Best Wildlife Camera
Are you a wildlife enthusiast who wants to see what happens in your garden when you're not around? Perhaps, you like us, want to find out where shoes are mysteriously...
Melinda Connor |
Garden Birds
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11 Top Shrubs With Berries for British Birds
With autumn here and winter on the way, the ground will soon be too hard for worm digging and insects are getting scarce. Berries are a vital source of food...
Alan Brimm |
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Why Do We Need Bird Feeders?
Bird tables have been around since the 1800s. And people have been putting food out on the ground for birds in their gardens for hundreds of years. And now we...
Clare Stone |
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How To Clean a Bird Table
If you have been successful in attracting lots of birds to your bird table, you will find it gets grubby pretty quickly and will need regular cleaning to keep it...
Clare Stone |
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Who’s Who of British Garden Birds
When you start to garden for wildlife, and put out food and water for the birds, you will start to notice a huge range of different feather visitors coming to...
Annette Young |
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Where to Place a Bird Bath
Ornithologists will tell you that providing fresh water for birds is probably more important than providing food. It can attract a broader range of species to your garden and will...
Clare Stone |
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Where To Place a Bird Table?
Positioning your bird table correctly can have a massive impact on how much the birds use it, and how much you enjoy it. So it's important to take some time...
Clare Stone |
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How Did Grey Squirrels First Get to The UK?
The grey squirrel is now classed as an Invasive Alien species in the UK. It’s thought of as a major pest and blamed for the destruction of our native red...
Clare Stone |
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When Do Birds Start Nesting?
It's a good question, and as with many things in nature, the answer is "It depends". There are a lot of factors that determine when birds start nesting. These include...
Clare Stone |
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How To Secure A bird Table to The Ground
High winds wreak havoc in the garden, and there is nothing worse than looking out of the window to see your bird table on the floor. For starters its a...
Clare Stone |
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How To Stop Pigeons Eating Your Bird Food
Pigeons are birds, right? So if we want to feed garden birds shouldn't we be happy to feed pigeons too? Hmm, well maybe, up to a point. But if you've...
Clare Stone |
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How Do birds Mate?
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. But hang on a minute, exactly how do birds mate? Well, most birds do things a bit differently from...
Alan Brimm |
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Why have The Birds Stopped Using Feeders In Our Garden?
There are lots of reasons why birds stop using feeders. Migration, moulting, predators, or better options elsewhere could all play a part.
Clare Stone |
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What To Feed Swans | Is it Safe To Feed Them Bread?
Swans are majestic birds: feeding swans, ducks and other water birds been a family pleasure for hundreds of years. Over the past few years, though debate has raged over whether...
Clare Stone |
