RSPCA Wildlife Friends

Video courtesy of the RSPCA

Transcript

00:00Hello, I'm Anna. I work for the RSPCA and we're going to show you how to make your garden

00:05as wildlife friendly as it can be.

00:12So we've got all kinds of different ways to invite bugs into your garden and you might

00:17be wondering, well why do I want to invite lots of bugs to my garden? Well if we have lots of

00:21insects in our garden it'll attract all the other wildlife that we want to see, so hedgehogs,

00:26small birds, bats even. We're going to start on the basics and we're going to use very natural

00:32materials that you might already have in your garden or that you could even find just going

00:36on a walk. So we're going to make a standing deadwood bug tower. So this is just a piece of

00:42wood that I've cut and it's got lots of different sized holes drilled in it and it's really simple

00:47to make. All you need is something sturdy, so here is a sawhorse, a plain piece of wood, this is

00:54birch and we're going to use a regular cordless drill. So we've got our wood nice and sturdy,

01:00if you feel more comfortable you can put a glove on the hand that's going to sort of steady the wood

01:05and you can literally, it really doesn't matter where you drill the holes,

01:12you can get really creative with this, you can make all sorts of patterns and designs if you like.

01:15And we have a log with some holes in it which is going to be our standing deadwood

01:29and we're simply going to dig a little hole in the ground. The deeper it is the wood underground

01:35will start to rot too and that creates a nice little habitat underground as well as on top

01:41of the ground. So we've got two there but I've actually got lots that I'm going to put in and

01:48we can make them into a nice little design and that will be fantastic standing deadwood

01:54for all of your invertebrates.