Creating a winter haven for birds in your garden
As winter draws to an end, birds are already busy staking out their territory and looking for a mate. Here's what you can do to help birds survive the last few weeks of cold weather and then…
Blog: Garden birds
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How the birds in our gardens can help us
Our friends at Vine House Farm tell us how our garden birds can help us during this unprecedented time, and how in turn we can help them.
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- Andrew Nixon (6)
- Chris Robinson (3)
- Claire Spicer (1)
- David Hutton (1)
- Frances Weeks (4)
- Friends of Bartonsham Meadows (1)
- Grahame Camm (1)
- Hannah Dunn (1)
- Helen Stace (3)
- Holly Thompson (3)
- Holly Williams (1)
- Ian James (1)
- Jack Morris (1)
- James Hitchcock (3)
- Jessica Tidball (14)
- Johnny Birks (1)
- Katherine Beasley (3)
- Lewis Goldwater (9)
- Lucinda Lewis (1)
- Martyn Duggan (1)
- Meg Cotterrell (2)
- Megan Day (1)
- Nathan Wilkie (1)
- Nic Howes (3)
- Nichola Geeson (1)
- Nick Clarke (1)
- Prof. Dave Goulson (1)
- Rose Ellis (3)
- Sarah Cadwallader (1)
- Sarah Keefe (7)
- Sarah King (7)
- Sophie Cowling (3)
- The Wildlife Trusts (18)
- Toby Fountain (2)
- Tom Hibbert (1)
- Tony Norman (1)
- Vine House Farm (2)
- Wendy Rushton (1)
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- Avian 'flu (1)
- Barn owl (1)
- Bartonsham Meadows (2)
- Bat roost (1)
- Bat survey (1)
- Beaver (2)
- Biodiversity Net Gain (2)
- Birches Farm (2)
- Bird food (1)
- Bird Identification (1)
- blue corridors (2)
- Bodenham Lake (2)
- botany (1)
- Brilley Green Dingle (1)
- Butterflies (2)
- Caterpillars (1)
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- Children In Need (1)
- Christmas (3)
- Christmas Grotto (1)
- Climate (1)
- Climate Crisis (3)
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- Common Hill (1)
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- COP26 (1)
- Coppicing (2)
- Corporate Members (3)
- curlew (4)
- Curlew project (2)
- Daubenton's bat (1)
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- Grassland restoration (1)
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- Habitat Restoration (5)
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- Health & Wellbeing (1)
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- Hereford City (4)
- Hereford City Yazor Brooks Restoration project (4)
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- lugg meadow (3)
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- Lugg Valley Wetlands (2)
- Lugg Wetland Gem (3)
- mammals (2)
- Marden (9)
- Marden local branch group (7)
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- meadow (1)
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- Nature Reserves (5)
- Nature tots (1)
- Nature-based solutions (1)
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- Oak tree farm (2)
- orchard planting (1)
- Orchards (3)
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- Pond life (5)
- Pond Surveys (3)
- Pond Week (6)
- pond wildlife (1)
- Ponds (8)
- Protected species (1)
- Queenswood (1)
- Queenswood Arboretum (1)
- Queenswood Country Park (2)
- Queenswood Country Park & Arboretum (4)
- Recovering our Rivers (8)
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- Regenerative farming (1)
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- Reserve Warden (1)
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- River Lugg (5)
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- River restoration (6)
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- Save the Wye (6)
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- Take Action For Insects (4)
- Tawny Owl (1)
- Team Wilder (1)
- Tesco (1)
- The Sturts (2)
- Titley Pool (1)
- Toad Patrol (1)
- toads (1)
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- Traditional orchard (2)
- Tree Planting (1)
- Trees (1)
- Tretawdy Farm (1)
- Urban wildlife (1)
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- Veteran Trees (1)
- Vine House Farm (1)
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- Volunteering (19)
- Waxcap (1)
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- Weobley Branch Group (1)
- Weobley Wildlife Meadows (2)
- Wern wood (2)
- Wetland (1)
- Wetland creation (1)
- Wetland restoration (1)
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- Wetland wildlife (8)
- Wetlands (8)
- White Stork (1)
- Wilder Future (2)
- Wilder Hereford (2)
- Wilder Herefordshire (3)
- Wildflower meadow (1)
- Wildlife Gardening (2)
- Wildlife Recording (2)
- Wildlife Surveys; Queenswood Country Park & Arboretum (1)
- Wildside of Marden (3)
- Winter wildlife (5)
- Woodland Management (3)
- Woodpeckers (1)
- Woolhope Dome (1)
- work experience (1)
- Wye Adapt to Climate Change (6)
- Wye catchment (1)
- Wye valley (2)
- Wyevale Wood (1)
- Yazor Brooks (2)