Woodpeckers, Great tits, mice and Red Mason, leafcutter bee cocoons.

Woodpeckers, Great tits, mice and Red Mason, leafcutter bee cocoons.

Why did you buy your bee home? There has been a surge in the number and designs of bee houses (they are not hotels!) you can buy in garden centres. Alas many of them were designed for the wrong reasons. Some designs just don’t work, have harmful or minimal outputs for...
Blue mason bees? (Osmia caerulescens) using observation nest box

Blue mason bees? (Osmia caerulescens) using observation nest box

Red and Blue Mason bees nesting in same nest box With Red mason bees and Blue Mason bees living together in the same Nurturing Nature solitary bee observation nest box, it’s like Liverpool and Everton supporters living together, which is great!! Besides Red...
Mate or meal? The choice a male Garden spider has to take!

Mate or meal? The choice a male Garden spider has to take!

Male Garden spiders, (Araneus diadematus) have a real ‘life’ choice to make! Well what do you do? The urge to pass your genes on could literally be the death of you! What a choice! Upon finding a female, the male cautiously and slowly approaches the female...
Garden feeding stations helping house and tree sparrows?

Garden feeding stations helping house and tree sparrows?

Sparrow numbers rise at garden feeders Research undertaken by the BTO has found that garden bird feeding is a driver involved in an evolutionary change in blackcaps. But what about other birds? I have been fortunate to have been involved in the Garden Bird Feeding...