Stress Relief:Engaging in a DIY project like building a birdhouse can be a therapeutic activity. It allows you to take a break from daily stresses and focus on a creative task. Cost-Effective:Making your own birdhouse can be more affordable than buying a pre-made one. You can use recycle...
–If you own a cat that goes outdoors,put a bell on its collarso thatvulnerable wildlifecan hear it coming and make their escape! 2. Reduce, reuse, recycle! We live in a ‘throwaway culture‘, where many of our things aren’t built to last. Each year, every house in the UK produce...
If you don't, you probably have some nifty long matches, a lighter and a stack of newspaper on the hearth. But what if you got lost in the wintry woods without a match or lighter? What if you washed ashore on a deserted island, soaked to the bone? You may not think so, but it...
squirrelsto your property in the first place. If your yard has more “food,” you’re the party house. Ensure you have tight-fitting trash cans, and never leave food or compost scraps sitting out. Bird seed is also big; keep it indoors or in a chew-proof container in a sheltered ...
of a fold on the tip, which is usually used in threading the clothes and prevents them from constantly slipping off. This part of the pole can be used to have a hook in it, which can be used to hand a bird feeder on a tree or remove it if you want to refill it with bird ...
Secure the birdhouse away from direct sun. If placed on a pole, use a baffle below it to prevent predators from climbing up. Select designs that are well ventilated and easy to clean.How to clean feeders and birdhouses Offer up special nesting materials ...
Those pictures were taken over the course of a few days. You can pretty much watch this happen. But now it will take another two months or so, depending on the temperature, for the fruit to fill out and finally ripen. A banana plant takes about 9 months to grow up and produce a bun...
Natalie MacLean (00:13:38) – Wow. And this winery in Portugal, though, they built like 100 bat houses, all among the vineyards. These little things on a tall pole looking sort of like birdhouses. But bat houses, I guess. That’s great, bat condominiums just caught my ...
STILL NEED TO CATCH UP ON A FEW OSCAR-NOMINATED MOVIES? There's still (barely) time to stream one of the nominees, skim key storylines going into the show or dive deeper in the four acting categories: actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress. Or you could brush up on your...
What the other animals get up to and therefore what is understood to be ‘natural’ has a strange power over us. So rethinking what is ‘natural’ has real world impacts. Historically gendered stereotyping, predicated on a misunderstanding of the animal world, is harmful to boys and men as ...