Author: wildaboutnaturesite

I work in retail . But my real passion is the environment. Not what it can do for me but what I can do for it . I have a medium sized garden. Yes it's not immaculate but neither is the real world. It's my personal space and it attracts a whole range of wildlife from insects to animals . My Flixton nature reserve where all animals and insects are welcome . I can show you how pretty much use any food you'd normally throw away . And how it can be reused in one way or another to encourage the right birds and insects to prevent or reduce the need for chemicals . Also I will be showing you places around the country but mainly in the northwest , where you can enjoy nature , and that are dog friendly . Alongside my daughters blog " wag yourself happy " where she's always tagging my pooches . Hope you like my page..

Out of date peanut butter

Don’t waste it it’s full of energy for birds , simply find a tuna typed can and scoop the paste into it then hang from a tree so simple and a good way of cutting out on waste and feeding the birds at the same time

Bird nests

A brilliant way of using your pet hair and the birds will love it !! Just make sure your pets haven’t recently been treated for fleas and ticks

A possible cure ? And so simple

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Lets hope this is a good sign

Spring feeling

It’s been a very mild day today so I found myself out in the garden doing some spring cleaning . So I cleared an inches worth of leaves out of the pond in readiness for the return of the frogs it’s also a sad fact that with this autumn just gone it was just too wet to get in the garden to do the pruning back I needed to do . and it’s too tempting to start doing this now when it’s so mild .

But nope I’m going to have to be patient now and wait until the chance of frost is over a good few months away yet .

But next years gardening is going to be much more challenging as the new addition to the family is a bit of a handful I think gardening is going to be fun !!!

Christmas Eve

Well it’s Christmas Eve here in Manchester and there’s a surprise in our local nature reserve yes daffodils already .

Anyway happy Christmas all !!!

mouse

not a creature was stirring except for this mouse And a fox

oh and that cat and our springer … oh Archie what are you up to ?

Close up !!

These have to be my favourite photo captures of the year

Green space

I feel it’s such a shame that we are going in danger of losing our green spaces to new housing this is an old manicuple golf course that is now used by the public for dogwalking and exercising ,it’s a beautiful spot with an abundance of wildlife , we’ve seen kingfishers and various birds of prey . Even parakeets . these spaces are not only important to our well being but the wildlife that occupies it .

The plans are to build up to 750 houses here .

Surely we should be preserving these precious areas for future generations to enjoy ?

Ferruginous hawk

So called because the word ” ferruginous ” means “iron” because of the hawks colouring making him look almost rusty .he weighs around 4lb so he was quite heavy to holdthis is basically north America’s version of our buzzard our native . At least half the size .

Harris hawk

Well this unpredictable bird certainly gave us a run for our money whilst on our hawk walk she flew off and nearly got a pheasant right in front of us . Fortunately for the pheasant , Harris hawks aren’t solitary hunters and usually there are several of them that work to hunt their prey .