Whether you're well on your way to having a wildlife haven in your back garden, or would love to have more hopping, snuffling and cheeping amongst the flower beds, our shop has lots of products to help encourage wildlife into your garden.
So, without further ado, here's our top tips for getting your garden in tip-top condition for wildlife!
If you don't have room to plant berry-bearing shrubs and trees, don't worry. With feeders to suit all gardens and spaces, you'll soon have birds flocking to your garden for a bite to eat.
Water is very important for wildlife - both for drinking and bathing in - but can often get overlooked. Become the favourite neighbourhood watering hole with one of our water baths.
You might not want to invite nature into your house, but you can still give a bird a home with one of our nestboxes. And for those of you who enjoy watching nestcams, you'll just love our nestbox with built-in camera.
And for your non-feathery visitors, why not also provide a home for hedgehogs, put up a minibug hotel, and make room for a frog/toad house?
Here's to enjoying your very own spring moments right outside your window!
We loved feeding the birds but unfortunately we were also feeding a growing family of rats. We've had to take our feeders down now and the rats have started to pop inside for my dog's biscuits. I'd be delighted to make my garden a haven for wildlife but feeding the birds has resulted in a huge problem for us.
Hello PWit
Rats being attracted to bird food is a common problem, but there are quite a few ideas for solutions on some of the other RSPB community threads, eg:
www.rspb.org.uk/.../29866.aspx
A member of my family was having a similar problem but solved it by removing food that the birds had dropped on the ground and also changing where she was keeping the food, since she discovered that the rats had got into the plastic buckets of fatballs, & so far so good...
Hope you can find a solution.
Hello Pwit and Matt
We have had a problem with rats and mice coming to feed from the birds waste food on the floor under our feeders, the soil turned smelly and putrid we had to remove as much as we could and re soil.We have now attached large plastic trays to the bottom of our feeders to try and solve the dropping of seed.Our garden looked such a mess we did consider stopping feeding but felt so guilty when the birds just sat in the tree trying to make out where their food supply had gone. Maria