Animal lovers countrywide rejoice when they spot new families of birds and other creatures in their local parks, woodlands and (best of all) in their own back garden.
There is a wide plethora of relatively simple ways to support wildlife in your local area, and here are four of the most effective.
1. Let the Grass Grow!
Often, too many people cannot understand why they rarely see hedgehogs wandering around the edge of their garden at night; or goldfinches and chaffinches enjoying a bath in their garden pond, when the simple fact is the grass is too short!
As beautiful as a symmetrical, intricately cultivated lawn appears, should you be looking for more wildlife in and around your local area, you need to let nature take its natural course.
Nobody would expect you to grow an entire forest outside your home, but easing into a more realistic and organic green space will provide the shelter, protection and safety that wildlife need to feel comfortable and establish a home.
2. Plant Shrubs and Trees (Not Just in Your Own Garden)
Trees and shrubs are not just an essential component of the natural world for human begins and as such, the more trees and flowering bushes and shrubs in the local park, outside the front of your house and in your private garden, the better.
There are also a whole host of additional reasons to plant trees in your neighbourhood, as well as to attract more wildlife, which include the following:
- Doing your bit to help fight climate change
- Improving the air quality
- Higher levels of health and fitness for local residents
- To counteract deforestation
3. Feed the Birds (Even though it is now considerably more than tuppence a bag!)
In terms of enjoying a wider variety of wildlife in your own garden, providing numerous water sources and an easy lunch are both surefire ways of seeing a whole host of birds make your garden a regular stop on their daily flight.
Black sunflower seeds from a renowned and expert supplier are an excellent choice for bird seed, can be fed to birds all year round, and will provide every vitamin, mineral and nutrient that every species of wild bird both wants and needs.
4. Litter Pick!
Should you have a couple of hours on the weekend spare, or if you are retired or work part-time from home, then organising a litter picking team in your local community will benefit wildlife, as well as residents, immeasurably.
It is far simpler to organise such a group than you may think.
Simply choose a specific location (be it a public park, or even an area of grass behind a shopping centre), confirm that there is no litter-picking group already operating there, contact the landowners and ask them if you can start clearing the area.
You could also choose to hire a skip to transfer the accumulated waste into once a week, or take it in turns with the rest of the group to transport the collected litter to the nearest recycling site.
