Gardening for Birds

Featuring seven garden plan illustrations, this guide covers different types of garden - window ledge, balcony, terrace or roof terrace, small suburban, large suburban and country garden. Each one is supplemented by checklists that suggest the best nest-boxes, feeders and baths to install, and also the best sorts of plants to cultivate. There is also a section on unusual gardens, such as those near the coast. Subsequent chapters look in more detail at caring for birds, providing protection from predators, and identification information. A bird calendar explains season-by-season the different birds you are likely to see in each type of garden, and the correct type of food to provide at different times of the year.

Gardening for Birds: How to Help Birds Make the Most of Your Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Moss, Stephen

Gardening & Landscape Design

HarperCollins, UK

The Bird-friendly Garden will help make your garden into a haven for birds—whether it's a balcony, a courtyard, or a simple window ledge. Each style of garden features a full-page garden plan illustration, and is supplemented by suggestions for the best nest-boxes, feeders, and bird-baths to install, as well as the best plants to cultivate. A bird calendar explains season-by-season the different birds you are likely to see in each type of garden, and the correct type of food to provide at different times of the year.

Bird-Friendly Garden: A Practical Month-by-Month Guide to Attracting Birds to Your Garden

An invaluable pocket-sized guide to the 100 popular bird species that you are most likely to find in your town, garden, or park. It also contains expert practical advice on encouraging birds to your garden. This completely new title in the Collins Gem series incorporates both practical information on each species and easy-to-use identification guides. Each page is devoted to a different species and illustrated with a color photograph to aid identification. It contains information on each species' feeding, behavioral habits, breeding, voice, and population. An extensive introduction provides information on nesting sites, water, pests, and predators. Compact and easy-to-use, Collins Gem Garden Birds is the perfect introduction to this increasingly popular subject.

Garden Birds (Collins Gem)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Collins

An invaluable pocket-sized guide to the 100 most popular species of bird that you are most likely to find in your town, garden or park Birdwatching is becoming very popular -- over 300,000 surveys were submitted for the 2003 Big Garden Birdwatch with the RSPB. This completely new title in the Collins Wild Guide series incorporates both practical information on each species and expert advice on how to encourage them into your garden. * Detailed description and ID factfile for each entry, enabling fast and accurate identification * Contains information on each species' feeding, behavioural habits, breeding, voice and population * An extensive introduction provides information on nesting sites, water, pests and predators Each two-page spread is devoted to a different species and illustrated with a colour photograph to aid identification. Compact and easy-to-use, Wild Guide Garden Birds is the perfect introduction to this increasingly popular subject.

Garden Birds (Wild Guide Series)

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife

Written in Bill Oddie's endearingly frank and witty style, this is an inspiring and refreshingly straightforward approach to watching wildlife. Organized into a calendar of months, each section includes tips from Bill Oddie himself on the best places to visit, how to catch a glimpse of our best-loved species, and activities for each month of the year. For example, in May, people can visit wildflower meadows in their prime, see a nightingale, and experience the dawn chorus. There are suggestions for places to visit within reach of any place in Britain, and advice on watching wildlife with children. With stories of Bill's experiences in the field, it offers families the know-how to start out with confidence. Oddie sets out to demystify wildlife watching, giving advice on basic equipment and field craft, as well as explaining how to make the most of encounters with animals. To guide people successfully through some of the finest wildlife experiences, there are top pointers, advice for things to take that might never have been considered, and helpful addresses and websites for activities less close to home. And for those really bitten by the bug, there is information on taking the next step, with hints on getting more advanced equipment, which conservation trusts to join, and wildlife vacations to make the most of these newfound skills.

Bill Oddie's How To Watch Wildlife

Oddie, Bill

Birds and bird lore provide a fascinating window onto our social and cultural history, and can tell us much about our changing relationship with the British landscape, our people, and society. In this book, Stephen Moss focusses on some of Britain's most beloved and charismatic birds. He explores their fascinating biology, and their place in the evolving culture and history of the British people. The author delves into the worlds of many birds, weaving their stories together to tell four very different stories about the changing face of Britain.

Birds Britannia

Reference

Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village

Stephen Moss lives in one of the longest villages in England -- Mark, on the Somerset Levels: a watery wonderland steeped in history. This ancient country parish has been reclaimed from the sea over many centuries and today the landscape bears witness to its eventful past, and is criss-crossed with watery ditches and broad droves, down which livestock was once taken to market. These are now home to a rich selection of wildlife: rooks and roe deer; sparrows and snowdrops; buzzards, badgers and butterflies; the iconic brown hare and the spectacular hummingbird hawk-moth. As the year unfolds, Moss witnesses the landscape as it passes from deep snow to spring blossom, through the heat haze of summer to the chill winds of autumn; from the first hazel catkins to the swallows returning from Africa; from the sounds of the dawn chorus to the nocturnal mysteries of moths. Wild Hares and Hummingbirds is both the story of a small corner of the West Country and a celebration of the natural world.

Wild Hares & Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village

Vintage Books

Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife

Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can. The newspaper headlines tell us that Britain’s wildlife is in trouble. Wild creatures that have lived here for thousands of years are disappearing, because of pollution and persecution, competition with alien species, changing farming and forestry practices, and climate change. It’s not just rare creatures such as the Scottish wildcat or the red squirrel that are vanishing. Hares and hedgehogs, skylarks and water voles, even the humble house sparrow, are in freefall.  But there is also good news. In Newcastle, otters have returned to the river Tyne and red kites are flying over the Metro centre; in Devon, there are beavers on the River Otter; and peregrines – the fastest living creature on the planet – have taken up residence in the heart of London. Elsewhere in the British countryside things are changing too. What were once nature-free zones are being ‘rewilded’; giving our wild creatures the space they need – not just to survive, but also to thrive.  Stephen Moss has travelled the length and breadth of the UK, from the remote archipelago of St Kilda to our inner cities, to witness at first hand how our wild creatures are faring, and offers us this complex, heartfelt and often unexpected response.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

The Bumper Book of Nature is a gloriously designed treasure trove of nature activities, ideas and information to inspire the whole family to switch off the TV and computer and get outside, whether you live in the deepest inner city, by the sea or on a farm.

The Bumper Book of Nature

Square Peg

The Bumper Book of Nature is a gloriously designed treasure trove of nature activities, ideas and information to inspire the whole family to switch off the TV and computer and get outside, whether you live in the deepest inner city, by the sea or on a farm.From the Hardcover edition.

The Bumper Book of Nature: Wildlife Facts and Fun For All the Family

Parenting & Relationships

Family Activities

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