I don't know the full details but its former home is no more and it needed re-homing.
Surveys are carried out before works are done but the presence of animals can be ignored if there's enough money about. (cynic)
Permission was applied for to extract gravel from the field next to us.. We have great crested newts. Water will be pumped out of the diggings and the site de-watered. This may well de-water our pond but permission was granted.
Am just about to have a 4' retaining wooden wall built to hold back a bank (SE facing). Will be filled with hardcore and then soil. Want to incorporate either drilled holes or cut out areas in retaining sleepers to insert bamboo canes, hosepipe lengths, etc., to accommodate solitary bees, bumble bees etc. Any ideas about hole size and depth and whether drilled holes need to be put in at an angle to prevent water running in. Any advice, tips gratefully received. Thanks
We (that is me supervising, him building) are going to build a wall to retain a bank of soil around the oak. I am using old dressed stone, and I am going to use some strong bottles inserted so that only the entrance pokes out to give hidey holes for bees etc.
I joined RSPB and my free gift was a nesting box which I nailed to the fence made a coffee and sat down and watched them investigate the box within 5 minutes
They did not stay as they already had a box in my neighbours garden
Think they were thinking of "Trading Up "
Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
That sounds a good idea Fidgetbones, but if there is a slope on the bottle neck (even though put in horizontally) will the bees be able to climb back out? Will it not bee (sorry about the pun!!) too slippery? If not it is an idea I may use.
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I don't know the full details but its former home is no more and it needed re-homing.
Surveys are carried out before works are done but the presence of animals can be ignored if there's enough money about. (cynic)
Permission was applied for to extract gravel from the field next to us.. We have great crested newts. Water will be pumped out of the diggings and the site de-watered. This may well de-water our pond but permission was granted.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I would contact Ken Livingstone; he's nuts about newts
Good gardening style scroggin. I shan't be able to move here soon for all the things I'm protecting
Good to know artjak
In the sticks near Peterborough
Am just about to have a 4' retaining wooden wall built to hold back a bank (SE facing). Will be filled with hardcore and then soil. Want to incorporate either drilled holes or cut out areas in retaining sleepers to insert bamboo canes, hosepipe lengths, etc., to accommodate solitary bees, bumble bees etc. Any ideas about hole size and depth and whether drilled holes need to be put in at an angle to prevent water running in. Any advice, tips gratefully received. Thanks
We (that is me supervising, him building) are going to build a wall to retain a bank of soil around the oak. I am using old dressed stone, and I am going to use some strong bottles inserted so that only the entrance pokes out to give hidey holes for bees etc.
My trillium is trying hard this year. Its in a very shady position.
March 14th
2 Blue Tits in my Bristol garden
I joined RSPB and my free gift was a nesting box which I nailed to the fence made a coffee and sat down and watched them investigate the box within 5 minutes
They did not stay as they already had a box in my neighbours garden
Think they were thinking of "Trading Up "
anyone mentioned wild violets yet? Saw the first of them here in the wood yesterday, and the buds on the horse-chestnut trees just starting to open.
That sounds a good idea Fidgetbones, but if there is a slope on the bottle neck (even though put in horizontally) will the bees be able to climb back out? Will it not bee (sorry about the pun!!) too slippery? If not it is an idea I may use.