November 2015
The quiz is over and we’ve picked a winner. Well, the Random Tea Generator has chosen, and here are the results: Phil Slade, a Supa Domed Feeder and 5kg wild bird peanuts are on their way.
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THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. However, please feel free to take this quiz just for fun! To enter the quiz, answer all ten questions; only one entry per person. The quiz closes at midnight on Thursday 19th November. The winner will be selected based on the most points, not percentage achieved. If more than one person equals first place, we will have a random prize …
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EVERYONE HAS SEEN BIRDS feeding from bird feeders hanging from trees and bird tables filled with seed. However, there are plenty of birds that feed from the ground. See all our ground feeders Song thrushes, wrens, chaffinches, dunnocks, blackbirds, house sparrows and robins are birds that mostly scour for insects and other forms of sustenance from soil. Providing feed for these ground-feeding birds may seem …
Continue readingThe content below is not original to Garden Wildlife Direct. The original source can be found here on the BBC website (2015). This week, we’ve been running live cameras on a bird feeder to find out what the local birds most like to fill up on. First experiment We put out an even percentage of sunflower seeds, oat grain and barley grain to appeal to the local farmland birds. We …
Continue readingBBC’s autumn watch was back at the start of this week, packed with intriguing insight into British wildlife in Autumn 2015. Over the coming week we will be bringing you the highlights of autumn watch and all the best advice for your garden visitors. This year Autumn watch is live from The Wildfowl & Wetland trust (WWT) in Caerlaverock. It has the largest salt marsh landscape …
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