Garden wildlife
Birds, hedgehogs and the rest of the garden. Honest, sourced advice on feeding, identifying and helping the wildlife that turns up — including when the honest answer is to do nothing, or to spend nothing.
Guides: what to do, and what to buy
Feeding, nest boxes, hedgehog houses, ponds and the rest — checked against the charities that do the research, with the kit you can skip.
Garden birds
The birds you are most likely to see, what they eat, what they are confused with, and their conservation status quoted from the source.
Mammals
Hedgehogs, foxes, bats, badgers and squirrels — including the two legal points a gardener is most likely to fall foul of without knowing.
Frogs, toads and newts
A pond is the single most valuable thing you can add for wildlife — and there is one thing you must never move between ponds.
Bees, butterflies and beetles
Which bee hotels actually work, which are ornaments, and what the hoverfly larvae in your roses are doing for you.
Reptiles
Slow-worms: protected, harmless, and routinely killed by strimmers and forks.
Feeding garden birds
What can go out today, what should never go out at all, and the hygiene routine that matters more than any of it.
The 2026 feeding change
The guidance changed, the trade disputes it, and most of the internet is still wrong. The whole argument, with everyone's commercial interest on the table.
Being built next
An identifier that ranks matches rather than filtering them out, so one wrong answer does not hide the right bird; confusion pairs for the species everyone mixes up; a garden hazard list; and what to plant so the garden feeds itself.