Wildlife

Start the year by joining the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch (24 to 26 January).

Just spend an hour watching the birds in your garden or in one of our award-winning parks.

Registration opens in mid-December.

Put up a nest box for National Nest Box Week, which runs from 14 February.

No space for a nest box? Don't worry you can rent a nest from Worcestershire Wildlife Trust so you can show your love for our feathered friends any time of the year.

March is the end of tree planting season, so mark it by planting a local variety of fruit tree in your garden.

You could always create a wildflower pollinator patch instead or create a herb garden in pots on your window sill. Bees and other pollinators love them.

Join the Great British Spring Clean, which runs until 6 April 2025.

Sign up for our Adopt a Street volunteer litterpicking
scheme and help keep your little corner of Wychavon clean and tidy. This stops litter from injuring wildlife and reduces pollution and ecosystem disruption.

Ditch the lawnmower for No Mow May. Allowing longer grass, weeds, and wildflowers to grow in your lawn will provide valuable nectar and habitat for pollinators just as they are hatching or coming out of hibernation.

Could you go wild for a whole month?
30 Days Wild is a Worcestershire Wildlife Trust-led month of action and inspiration to do one wildlife themed activity each day throughout June.

The Big Butterfly Count beginson Friday, 18 July. Download the free butterfly spotter sheet or app, find a good spot where you can sit for 15 minutes and record the butterflies you see. Don’t forget to upload your results!

Give our bugs and minibeasts somewhere to shelter and raise their young by building or buying a bug hotel.

If you can’t give them the five-star treatment, then don’t worry. Good habitats can be made out of a collection of  pine cones, piles of rotting wood or twigs, and leaves shoved in an old plant or yoghurt pot.

September  is a great time to start building a home for our hedgehog friends so they have somewhere to hibernate from October to March. You can buy one or make your own.

Adding a pond of any size to your outdoor space is a great way to support all kinds of wildlife, from frogs to dragonflies. For small spaces, use a washing-up bowl, kettle, urn, glazed pot, or even an old bathroom sink.

Just don’t add fish! They will gobble up the wildlife you are trying to encourage.