There is so much we can do in our gardens to help wildlife at springtime. Please send your tips or photos to penny@pennypost.org.uk
• RSPB’s 5 ways to help nesting birds.
• Woodand Trust’s 10 ways to help wildlife in Spring
• Here is a list of lots more things you can do in your garden to help wildlife:
Pond creation, pond plant suppliers, mini ponds
Log pile
Compost heap
Hibernaculum
Hedgehog house
Hedgehog highway
Bird box
Bat box
Plants for pollinators
Wild flower area / mini meadow
Wild area (long grass, scrub etc)
Fruit tree
Native tree
Native hedge
Bug hotel (second link from the Wildlife Trusts)
Bee house
Butterfly house
Feeding the birds
Feeding hedgehogs
Reduce pesticide use
Stopped slug pellets
Litter picking
Glimpses of spring life in our area.
If you have a photo or video you would like to submit to this page please contact penny@pennypost.org.uk
Male ladybirds are smaller than the females but it doesn’t seem to hold them back much.
Excited text from son at college today. Town centre, lunchtime: ‘Mum! You’ll NEVER guess what I’m having lunch with!’ Oh the months he’s spent stalking lakes & riverbanks with me, mostly futile … his reward. #otters pic.twitter.com/4fYp0By2cC
— Nicola Chester (@nicolawriting) March 25, 2019
A friend of our son’s was lucky to catch this otter on his phone.
His Mum, Nicola Chester, who is a nature writer, tweeted the footage and unsurprisingly it has gone viral…
What can I say…? Luckily the rising water level should put paid to this kind of behaviour.
The River Lambourn is a winterbourne and is dry for several months of the year so our cats are used to hunting on both sides of the stream.
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