How to feed birds in your garden
Find out how to attract birds into your garden all year round.
Find out how to attract birds into your garden all year round.
In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?
With food, water and shelter scarce over the winter months, give your garden birds a treat with an edible Christmas wreath.
A delicate wader, Red-necked phalaropes are as comfortable swimming as they are on land. Unusually for birds, the females are more brightly coloured than the males.
Living up to its name, the red-tailed bumblebee is black with a big, red 'tail'.
The Common sexton beetle is one of several burying beetle species in the UK. An undertaker of the animal world, it buries dead animals like mice and birds, and feeds and breeds on the corpses.
Beavers are the engineers of the animal world, creating wetlands where wildlife can thrive. After a 400-year absence, beavers are back in Britain!
A bright red beetle, with black legs and knobbly antennae, the red-headed cardinal beetle lives up to its name. Look for it in woodland, along hedgerows and in parks and gardens over summer.
The red-throated diver lives up to its name - the distinctive red patch on its throat heralds the breeding season. In summer, it nests in Scotland, but look out for it around the UK's coast…
These distinctive beetles are often found around dead birds and small mammals.
Look out for the feathery leaves of Spiked water-milfoil just below the surface of streams, ditches, lakes and ponds; its red flowers emerge from the water in summer. It provides shelter for a…