In this video we look at 7 ways in which you can help wildlife in your garden this spring.
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Joel, fantastic advice as always. Thank you x
On the subject of feeding birds, I have fed sunflower hearts, suet pellets and nyjer seed for most of the year.
I have found that the local house sparrow population has increased, the parents are in better condition to breed, and they use the suet pellets to supplement the feeding of young.
We have had in the past siskins feeding and bringing young to our nyjer feeders.
Amazing advice as usual joel 🐸💚🐸
Hi Joel hope your well. Do you still see sparrow I'm glasgow get load of birds but haven't seen a sparrow in years. Any idea how I can encourage them other than food I already do all that ta heather x
Great video! 👋👋👋
Thank you for all the reminders 🌿💚🌱
Once again another informative video Joel 👌🏻. Rather you than me in that snow 🥶
Now ready to watch wild isles by Sir David Attenborough.
Keep up the good work Joel 👏🏻
Just dug a pond and Is already filled with water without a liner due to all the snow melt!
We managed to escape snow here. I was out in the garden planting some bare root echinacea. I’ve decided to clear my patch of grass and convert the area into wildflower meadow, so that’s my main project this year, I also need to refresh my barrel pond. Regards
Nice to hear that coppicing your trees is still possible.
We now have the keys of our new house and there is a row of an unknown tree species, when you enter the garden.
At the moment they are cut pretty formal, but I would like to coppice them, at least a few as a start.
What tools do you need for that?
My amount of tools are pretty low at the moment because I just started gardening 2 years ago.
But my newest tool is a big kind of scissor with long arms, for cutting back my buddleja's.
On march 24 we will be officially moving in and hopefully I can start planning and digging my own wildlife pond soon.
There are a lot of house sparrows nearby and so far when I visited the house to bring over some stuff, I have enjoyed listening to their chirps.
It is so calming to hear and it makes me feel at home on an instant😍❤🐦
Hi Joel. Not that I'm trying to make you jealous but here in Bristol, I've hung some washing out on the line and it dried!
My little tub pond is doing well. I've noticed that a plant has got new growth – I think it's a little waterlily and I've got some little water snails in there as well. I noticed I've got blanket weed so I'll have to get some more oxygenating plants. Hope you're well. Love to Frank and Luna.
Hey Joel! Great tips and inspiration as always. So much to do and a lot to leave alone in the garden at this time of year. Nice to be planning if not yet doing, I'm sure we all feel the same and can't wait to do more for wildlife this year. My elephant Hawk Moth cocoon hatched and what a beauty emerged! Having to stop the dog from trying to eat it which is a lot of fun!!!! Best wishes.
Wild bird feed has been a huge problem this year, after brexit I have found that the suppliers no longer offer mail order, coupled with the fact that most Sunflower hearts came from Bulgaria this has now pushed the price over that which people will buy, in fact Croston Mill has now stopped mail order all together, there is a lot of Sunflower seed available here,(in France), but I must make a de husker to take of the outer cases of the seed as I find finches are not as keen to attack whole seeds, we have not yet got your snow, although we had heavy falls in January! Stay safe! Chris B.
Great video as always Joel thank you for the inspiration. I had a sparrow hawk on my garden fence in Southend this week – what a beauty !
Love your videos Joel! I'm gardening in south central New Mexico USA on a very small residential lot. It is full on Spring here. Your tips have helped me improve my garden for wildlife. Birds are singing and building nests as I type this. I noticed a Black Swallowtail chrysalis on an ocotillo and have planted carrots, dill and parsley for when it emerges. XOX
I cleaned and put up my nest boxes this weekend, fingers crossed we get some House Wrens and Chickadees 😊
Carolina Wren, what a tiny loud mouth they are. I have one every yr build a nest in a hanging planter, gotta love 'em tbo 😊
I have a big burn pile of branches, it's been 6 – 7 yrs since I set it on fire, too many birds & bunnies in and out of it.
i’m one of those living in rented accommodation, and i finally set up my wildlife barrel pond last autumn. it’s already made a huge difference in supporting wildlife, but i’m very excited to see how spring and summer changes it. another thing i did last summer was keep shallow trays of water and pebbles on the ground for the invertebrates, and for the first time ever i had ladybird larvae on my fennel!! water makes such an insane difference, it’s like life just bursts when you add water to even a small urban garden like mine ☺️🌱
Great tips, thanks Joel. What if I created a wildflower patch last year? Should it have self seeded as I had a mixture of annual and perennial seeds there. If I turn it over will I have to restart? Thanks
Still 2 inches of snow here in Aberdeenshire, so our birds have 3 feeds per day! It goes as fast as I put it out for them. They sit in the trees & bushes waiting for me ❤️
Stay warm Joel!
Joel I made some bird boxes from old palettes (untreated) I have designed them for the sparrows or blue/great tits how high should I place them?
I would LOVE to start my ponds now but the ground is still frozen so I guess I have to wait. 🙃 I also feed my birds all year. In the winter they really need that and in summer I still want to see them up close. I am also careful for the peanuts and big seeds for when they have their young. Joel, I will never get sick of you showing us awesome videos so keep them coming! I'm learning a lot.
Hi Joel, I feed the birds all year round 😳 should I be stopping during the nesting season.
Thank you Joel, for this summary. Helpful, as ever. Just a sidestep: I always have to think of you when I look at my micropond. Hope you have a good one. Curious about how the French gardenadventure will turn out. Greetings.
Love it.. hope you make more of, in ….. month you can do ….. for wildlife
Great advice as usual. All the best Joel.
Sad to say I've had to take my bird feeders down as have noticed a couple of chaffinches and certainly a wood pigeon I have observed have developed trichomonosis (fat finch disease). Will remove them for at least 3 weeks. Have plenty trees and shrubs so won't worry about the birds not getting natural food but do miss the many species of bird that visit my garden, all for the good though.
Hope you've warmed up now, Joel. Turning some interesting shades of blue and pink there.
Anyone who has not yet made a brash heap in their garden – they really are amazing features to attract birds intending to nest or just scout about looking for food.
I've had a brash hedge (I normally call it a twig hedge) for the past 10 years and it has really helped build a thriving population of wrens.
Only last week, I was adding branches to one of my two brash heaps – and a little wren popped out it to give me a good telling off. While wrens may not be quite as brave as Robins, they're never far away when I'm working in the garden.
Great tips Joel. I follow all these tips in my garden. A visiting sparrowhawk has taken a couple of birds a sparrow and a starling. Gone a bit quiet in the garden at the moment, bad weather driven it to look further afield possibly. Amazing to watch it hunting though.
I'm so glad you said to hang on and resist tidying! I'm gritting my teeth and doing just that🙂But I was rewarded this morning when I heard a funny sound in the garden and realised it's all the frogs (I'm assuming the males?) who are currently having a wild party with the females in our little frog pond…it was fab to hear and made it much easier to resist the 'cleaning' temptation 👍Thanks for your videos!
Hi Joel great tips as usual I regularly buy your bird seed mix & fat ball's and would highly recommend them as the Bird's in my garden love them carry on with your great work.
Hi Joel I have just set up my own wildlife barrel pond today inspired by you and your videos and already a robin has given it his seal of approval. Keep up the good work 👏
Great tips I shall crush my bird nuts and try to make a pond too
Hi Joel 😊❤️
I feed the birds daily in my garden.
I had bring a bird box for sparrows 👍👍❤️
Were do you live in UK ??
Great tips Joel 😊
would fish happily thrive in a barrel pond? What’s the max number you would have? Thanks
Had a wildlife pond for a whole year now , completed march last year Daily inspection before work on st Patrick’s day and we have our first frog spawn .
We live in the middle of a housing estate only a 10 minute walk from our town centre so if you dig they will come ..
Didn't know about a barrel pond!!Thanks!