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flowers, thickets and wilderness?), but it's amazing how important the little things are. I see it time and time again, like the value of topping up the bird bath throughout the year, leaving apple windfalls for the blackbirds, or leaving the coriander

the new gardeners world magazine and there is a project to make a nesting box from an old teapot, whoever thought of this doesnt know much about birds, even if a bird did lay eggs in it they would fall prey to all sorts of prededitors including woodpeckers

i have an allotment on top of the law hill in dundee and on any day i have one wren two robins two blackbirds numeruos blue tits at the bird feeders we keep the bird feeders up all year long we have got a green woodpecker,greater spotted and a

missed. Have a nuthatch nesting in a bird box attached to my eves, which is usually used by blue tits. Never had a nuthatch in before. fascinating to watch. Can see the young being fed as they reach to get food parent brings to it. Sure there are 3

three cats and I also have numerous bird feeders and boxes in the garden as I enjoy watching the visiting birds and wild life. We don't have a problem at all with the cats trying to catch the birds, although they seem to like hunting mice. We very often

be grown in pots, too. Good luck! Oh, I do feel for you. I agree with Alina - get the bird feeders up, a bird bath, a nest box (for next year) when you know what kind of birds you need to cater for . There has to be fencing/wall that you can cover

I sewed a couple of boxes of mixed wildflower seed about 10 days ago. Some regular looking seedlings have appeared plus quite a few shoots that look like odometer kind of grass. Does that sound right or could it be grass somehow left behind when we

nesting in thick ivy near my bird feeders and the male is working overtime chasing away anything that flies! Having said that the young have left but he returns for suet fruity sprinkles. The blue tits are about to leave the boxes (I wish it would warm up

the holes.'brill'.i also had bees nesting in a bird box but were sadly attacked by the silkmoth...[so i was told].i was told by someone in a garden centre that bug boxes arent worth buying either,and to try and do your own,but the odd thing is i to have a

Hello everyone, How wonderful this programme is. It shows us the background & the private lives of wildlife we see in our gardens. I so enjoy seeing the lives of our garden birds and the trials they have to ovecome to make it to survival. It shows