Blue Tongue Lizards are well known around Australia and I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t enjoy a visit from them. This post includes a photo from UWG member Mary from Tewantin who recently had two inspect her garden and links to two articles from About Animals and Backyard Buddies that gives hints to make your garden attractive to blue tongues.
Feeding wildlife is a controversial issue. This article from Land for Wildlife looks at the negative effects of feeding wildlife, other ways to make a garden attractive to fauna and responsible feeding options. Rather than providing food directly, habitat can be created for wildlife by planting food supplies and providing shelters that will encourage wildlife to keep returning.
Attracting frogs into your backyard is not difficult. If you create the right conditions and habitat the frogs will find their way. You may even have resident frogs already. The presence of frogs is a good indicator of the overall health of an ecosystem. By creating suitable habitats and refuges for frogs in our own backyards we can help their survival in challenging urban environments. Click through for more tips and tricks to attract frogs into your garden.
Stuart McKenzie from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 know too well that snakes are a part of life here on the Sunshine Coast as development forces snakes to move from bushland areas into suburbia to try and survive. According to Stuart, snakes play a pivotal role in our ecosystems, whether we like them or not. In this post Stuart tells us more about the snakes of our region and why education is better than just being scared.
Watching birds feed, play and bath in your own garden is a very rewarding way to pass the time. So it’s not surprising that most Urban Wildlife Garden members want to see more, or a larger variety of bird species, use their garden. It’s the most common response when Michelle asks UWG members what wildlife they would like to see more of, and here she shares some ideas.
Around 30 people attended the UWG Native Bee Workshop and some early slide technology brought back memories. Thanks to Bob Raaby and friends for taking the time to show and tell and answering our questions.