Children’s adventures as wildlife detectives learning about animals and wildlife in their natural habitats. Following animal tracks or finding out facts about diverse creatures from bugs to deer to rabbits.
My eight-year-old daughter no longer wanted her doll’s house but refused to give it away. She then came up with the brilliant idea that it would be perfect as a bug hotel with a new basement flat for hedgehogs. Even for a doll’s house bug hotel ‘location, location, location’ is important. We needed somewhere that the […]
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In 2000 the London Wetland Centre was opened and became a wildlife oasis in the middle of London’s suburbia. Wetlands are the primary source of drinking water for people and wildlife.” The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) The 42 hectare site was turned into wetlands and gardens which are now home to birds, bats, frogs and
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Finally my children went on a rock pooling adventure. It was one of those beach activities they had never done so I needed to teach them how to be rock pool explorers. I took them to National Trust’s Birling Gap in East Sussex which is known for its rock pools at low tide. We lived two years
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We’d heard there was a badger sett somewhere in the woods near us but we weren’t sure where it was exactly located. It was time to be nature detectives and follow a badger path to see whether it would lead us to the sett. Badger communities – or clans – live in underground communal dens
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As readers know I’m very keen on children noticing and appreciating nature. As we have so many wild birds where we live in rural West Sussex, I’m continually thinking of ways to make bird watching fun for them – like designing this Lego bird feeder. So I came up with a plan for them to
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On nature walks we constantly spot animal footprints and can see where they roam when we’re not about. We’ve also been on a nature detective hunt following badger trails. Finally we decided it was time to learn how to make casts of animal tracks so we could find out who had been sharing those same
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