Choose a mix of wildflowers to suit different pollinators, such as flowers favoured by moths, bumblebees, honeybees and butterflies.
Familiarise yourself with a recognised deadwood survey method and its criteria.
Every year, sometime between September and February, once nesting season is well over, carefully remove the nest box from where it is positioned.
Choose a piece of hardwood and drill holes into it, ideally around eight millimetres across, though you can vary the size, drilling as deep as you can without breaking through to the other side.
Choose wildflower plant plugs to suit different pollinators, such as plants favoured by moths, bumblebees, honeybees and butterflies.
iNaturalist is a free app and website for recording any wild plant, animal or fungus.
BirdTrack is a free recording scheme run by the British Trust for Ornithology with partner organisations.
Choose a small, sheltered container, such as an old teapot, a wooden box or an upturned terracotta plant pot, and drill a small entrance hole about the width of a pencil in one side, low down near the
Choose a healthy, non flowering shoot from the plant you want to propagate, and cut a length of about ten to fifteen centimetres just below a leaf joint using clean, sharp secateurs.
Help monitor how wildlife is doing in your local area by registering with one or more UK citizen science projects, such as a bioblitz, the big butterfly count, the RSPB big garden birdwatch, a moth ni