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    Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve with cottongrass in the foreground. © Bex Lynam

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    A couple reading an wildlife interpretation panel at South Walney Nature Reserve with Piel castle in background © John Morrison 

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How to feed birds in your garden

Find out how to attract birds into your garden all year round.

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How to build a bird box

With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.

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How to clean nestboxes and bird feeders

Nestboxes can harbour parasites so it is good practice to take them down at the end of the season and give them a clean. Likewise it is…

Birds

Great Crested Grebe

Grebes and divers

Fulmar

Seabirds

Goldeneye

Waterfowl

Bittern

Herons, egrets, spoonbill and crane

White-tailed eagle in flight

Birds of prey

Black grouse males lekking

Grouse, partridges, pheasant and quail

Common Snipe

Wading birds

Turtle dove

Pigeons and doves

Kingfisher in flight

Woodpeckers, cuckoo, kingfisher and waxwing

Sand martin

Swallows, swift, martins and nightjar

Ring-necked parakeet

Parakeet

Pied wagtail

Larks, sparrows, pipits, wagtails and dunnock

Dipper

Thrushes, chats, flycatchers, starling, dipper and wren

Marsh tit

Tits, crests and warblers

Hooded Crow

Crows and shrikes

Siskin

Finches and buntings

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