🦔🦊🕷️🐦⬛What Lives In/Visits Your Garden?🦔🦊🕷️🐦⬛
This week is Garden Wildlife Week, a week to appreciate and discover the wildlife that visits or lives in your garden. Most of us have gardens, or a balcony where we grow plants, and believe me, you can find wildlife anywhere there are plants or water.
To help attract wildlife, a pond is a good plan, but it can be hard work; it’s a lovely place to sit and watch what appears in or on your pond.
Plant bee and butterfly-friendly flowers, put up bird feeders with a mixture of food in them, to attract different species, and have a wild area, where you let the weeds, etc., grow.
That is the start of a wildlife haven; it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.
Always have bowls of water available with some slate or piece of wood in it so that the bees etc. can get out and don’t drown.
The week started to make people aware that they should encourage and look after the wildlife, as they are privileged to have it visit. It became very popular, especially in urban areas, where the wildlife can be very interesting.
We watched a David Attenborough programme about wildlife in London, and you wouldn’t believe what they get there in gardens.
So we need to encourage wildlife to visit or live in gardens. They do no harm and a lot of good. We can all make a few changes to ensure that anything that visits is safe and will come to no harm.
The other idea is to buy a trail camera; it doesn’t need to be expensive, but put it out at night, and you will be surprised by the visitors you have. I know we were!!
Unfortunately they only visited for a short while, but what a surprise when we saw that on the camera!
So today, share any pics of wildlife, even a bee on a plant or a butterfly. Post pics, gifs, etc. and above all, encourage wildlife with food, water, and plants.
