Browsing: wildlife

National Nest Box Week is upon us! We’re being encouraged across the nation to put nest boxes in our gardens for Blue Tits, Great Tits, Sparrows and Robins. But what about our larger bird species, such as Owls? Can building and erecting nest boxes for these birds help; do owls use nest boxes?

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Getting out into the garden might not be at the forefront of your mind this weekend given the weather we’ve been having, but it’s been brought to my attention that as well as being Valentine’s Day, today is the first day of National Nest Box Week.

Now I know it seems that every day or at least every week on the calendar is a national something-or-another event, but this does seem to me to be a national week worth mentioning – although ‘Talk like a Pirate day’ is a whimsical and amusing idea, encouraging and promoting biodiversity and wildlife conservation is probably rather more worthwhile.

This year is the British Trust for Ornithology’s 10th National Nest Box Week. Since its original launch, promotions surrounding the annual event have encouraged thousands of budding ornithologists to put boxes up in their gardens and around their local areas, which does a great job in combating the loss of natural bird habitats associated with increasing urban sprawl, and gardens and public areas becoming more manicured.

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