• Give garden wildlife a home this winter

    Blogger: Aggie Rothon, Communications Officer

    'Christmas is the one time of year that we collectively decide to go in to hibernation’ my colleague said the other day. ‘We don’t tell each other, everyone just knows that it will happen.’ Yet while we are all emerging from a restful and sleepy festive period, for birds the winter months are a continual frenzy of feeding activity. With little ‘natural food’ such as berries…

  • Watching out for my garden wildlife

    Blogger: Jacqui Miller, Conservation Officer

    I used to go to lots of places to look for wildlife – everything from walks on the common to trips to remote Scottish Islands to listen to corncrakes, but always going somewhere. I would occasionally peer out at the garden, but it was a bout of flu that really made me look that bit closer to home.

    I should have known that my garden would be a good spot for wildlife…