Make a bird feeder
Make a bird feeder and see who comes to visit your garden.
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Chwilio
River bird spotter
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My laboratory
Nora’s study of bird behaviour explores how small bird communities flock together to ward off larger predators. Nature has many things to teach us and is now widely acknowledged as a key…
Weird ears
Meet six animals with weird and wonderful ears
Winter
In winter life can be hard for animals – days are short and for many creatures finding enough food to survive takes up almost every hour of daylight. But there is still plenty of wildlife to spot.
Spring
There is fantastic wildlife to see during spring. Birdsong reaches a peak and many flowers appear, in turn attracting insect-life, including bees and butterflies. Animals that hibernated over winter begin to appear.
Clever Corvids!
The crow family is no bunch of feather-brained fools – they’re brilliantly brainy birds!
Things near you
If you're looking for things you can do to help wildlife or you want to get involved with your Wildlife Trust here are some ideas.
My dinner party
Niamh loves to feed the birds, so makes natural feeders out of pinecones and berries, to help them through the winter. She’ll tie this to a branch so that the birds can feast from it safely.
Yellow-rattle
Brush through a wildflower meadow at the height of summer and you'll hear the tiny seeds of yellow-rattle rattling in their brown pods, hence its name.
How to clean bird feeders
Keep bird feeders clean with these simple steps
How to make a bird hide
View birds close up by making your own hide.