So, to encourage wildlife into your garden you need to create the habitats they require. Put up bird boxes, feed the birds with a high-energy feed, not filled with wheat flakes, but rich in calcium, suet pellets, dried mealworms, niger seed, sunflower seeds (without husk), kibbled peanuts, oat hearts, red dari, hemp seed, biotin, red millet, vitamins A, C, D, E.
Create butterfly homes which look like bird boxes, but rather than a hole you use a slit, and generally leave the garden a little messy in areas.
If you don’t have a garden, you can get bird feeders that stick to the window using a suction pad; if you can get a hook in a wall outside a window then you can put up a bug hotel, bird box or butterfly box.
Hanging baskets, window boxes will have organisms in the soil, woodlice, ants, which birds can feed on. If you have a window ledge add some bird seed to it – you might just get pigeons, but you never know.
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