My Wildlife Garden

[Smithy]

My wildlife garden​

More shrubs/bushes added to the garden which will help with bird cover.

Pond added a few months ago now has tadpoles turning into small frogs.
Hedgehog was seen on my front drive 2 days ago I now need to make holes in the bottom of the fence to allow the frogs, newts and hedgehogs to enter and exit whenever they like.

https://imgur.com/a/NJVWCXN

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Very nice.

My neighbor though... whew.

First it was a chicken shack and screening in her small patio. Trying to address the explosion in weeds and chicken cleanup woes, she's dug out the turf and is now shoveling in crushed limestone. That will be tamped down, then probably covered over with porous weed-stop with a top-coat of gritty sand.

I understand why, but this will be a mess to reverse in the future once she gets bored catering to those birds. This isn't out in farm country, she's on a quarter-acre suburban lot.

None of it is very "pretty" being more or less cobbled together. I think the wood rot and rusting chicken wire are going to bring regret. She already had to reroof it all once, having cheaped out and suffered winter damage from the weight of snow.

 

[Don Alaska]

Most of my property is a "wildlife garden". When I moved here, I had no neighbors and no structures were visible from my house. Life has moved on and development has crept in as the roads have improved, but not much is seen during the summer when leaves are on the trees. We used to get porcupines but haven't seen on in a while. We still get moose and the occasional bear, but we do nothing to attract them. The lake/pond/stream in the back yard /garden has lots of wildlife--frogs, fish, and salmon when they are running. We have no other amphibians other than small frogs, and no reptiles, snakes, ticks that affect humans or dogs, fleas, skunks, raccoons.... There are a lot of waterfowl in that water as well, including ducks--resident and migrating-- and a swan pair that raises a family here every year.