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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

at opening the doors. For extreme niusance there is always the lead option. I have had to squirrel proof all my nest boxes with metal plates, and they even had a go at the sparrow box under the eves! Thanks smflyman ,i am not having problems with squirrels

for nesting material, even a rough hibernation box against a sheltered spot or under shed/compost heap. check out for more info. I think it's great that you have left the hedgehog on your allotment. we have a small pond in our garden which has about 2 dozen

.AdamKitchen scraps are great to use in the fat cakes but don't use anything too salty. Never use salted peanuts or very salty bacon.Attracting birds to your gardenMake a nesting area for birds on a pond, video projectInstall a window bird feederBirds and Bird Feeders

there because my husband moved it while working in the garden today.   Yes I feed the birds everyday, have nest boxes up everywhere too. We have bluetits and sparrows busy building their nests at the moment.  The Gower is a beautiful area. Its not quite like

aside especially for wildlife. In my tiny garden at home I have a bees nest, which was a deserted mouse hole. I attended a talk on bees last year and apparently they prefer sites such as this rather than the bumblebee nest boxes you can buy and make

family of blue tits nesting in our bird box which was made to blue-tit measurements given on a form collected from a visitor centre at Tockholes whilst out walking. This year the sparrows have pecked at the hole and made it bigger and are now nesting

water would.  We wouldn't- but then we don't want to be poisoned either, or stamped on-I wonder if this is a compost bin with a lid rather than a heap-perhaps Madeleine will elaborate? I have always had ants nests in my enclosed garden composter. They do

sparrows nest box but no luck. many thanks South wales has held up as far as sparrow populations are concerned and for many years they were just "there" as they decline in numbers elsewhere. I've taken stock they are not just little raucous brown jobs

fasinating, they do no harm to the flowers just cut a beautiful circle out of a leaf, I put a bee box on the house wall , the one with the canes inside, and love watching the busy Bees going in and out, they lay there egg, put a blob of honey in for the grum