Welcome to GB Wildlife

Our site is dedicated to the fabulous wildlife of the British Isles and we hope to provide lots of information for anyone wanting to learn more about wildlife in their local area and further afield. We have written a month by month guide of some of the monthly wildlife highlights that you can enjoy and have also started a wildlife articles section to help you learn to see more wildlife and perhaps have a go at photographing it too. We’re also in the process of writing reviews of products we’ve tried that we’ve found useful with a particular passion for getting kids into wildlife. Our son (now a teenager) provided us with plenty of ‘feedback’ on what he liked and didn’t like over the years plus plenty of practise at trying to keep him at least somewhat warm and dry – check out the wildlife review section for more information.

We hope you’ll find some useful information on the site and we’ll endeavour to keep adding new content. We do use Amazon links on many pages as that’s a way of us making a small commission when you click through to Amazon from our site and make a purchase. This helps contribute towards the site running costs and your support in this is much appreciated.

N.B. much of our content was on an old site, we are planning on manually transferring this over but if you are interested in contributing please get in touch to discuss. We are particularly keen on increasing our Wildlife Articles and adding a lot more ‘How-to’ style articles.

Wildlife to See This Month – September

Wildlife to See in September : Harvest

Wildlife to see in September – Brambles

Wildlife to See in September : Brambles (Rubus fruiticosa) I have long believed the humble bramble to be one of Britain’s most under-appreciated plant species. People complain of its ability to take over a garden, sending thorny shoots out across prized rose bushes...

Wildlife to see in September – Squirrels

Wildlife to See in September : Squirrels As September begins we are seeing many changes to our native, non native and migratory species of wildlife. Many of our visitors are now leaving for sunnier climes and at the same time many that are staying are beginning to...

Latest Reviews

Hidden Histories: A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape

Overview Hidden Histories: A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape is a really interesting and fascinating book that helps to interpret what we see whilst out and about in the countryside. The book sets out to be a guide in answering questions we've all had whilst...

RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening

Overview The RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening by Chris Baines is a beautifully illustrated and comprehensive book giving a very broad coverage of wildlife in and around our gardens. The book opens by explaining the ever increasing importance of our gardens for...

Best Raincoats for Girls

Pretty and practical raincoats for girls

Which Type of Garden Bird Food to Use

Here we look at the different options for feeding the birds in your garden throughout the year.

Best Raincoats for Boys

Colourful and practical raincoats for boys.

Best Mid-Price Range Binoculars

If you are ready to move on from budget or pocket binoculars, or like me you have a small cheap pair that you can carry with you all the time but also like a nicer, more expensive pair for holidays and trips to nature reserves then you will probably be considering...

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How to Articles

Help Save Endangered Dormice

The best time to conduct the survey is over the autumn and winter when discarded nut shells…

Make a mini-wildflower meadow

As ever with gardening, planning is essential. Think ahead and especially decide on the type of meadow…

Photograph Brown Hares

The Brown Hare – I’ve spent quite some considerable time watching and photographing these wonderful creatures…

Create a cosy home for bugs

Snug as a Bug is a national campaign run by Buglife to get hundreds of people creating cosy homes for bugs!

Help Honey Bees Survive

Honey bees across the world are threatened by virulent viruses transferred by the varroa mite.

Better Photos of Garden Birds – Part Two

A few more things to cover before getting started with getting great photos of your garden visitors.

Better Photos of Garden Birds – Part One

Getting good quality photos of garden birds isn’t as easy as you might expect, here’s some tips to get you started…

Build a cheap garden pond for under £20

Often quoted as the single biggest thing you can do for local wildlife and it doesn’t need to be expensive here’s how

See more of your garden moths

There are over 2000 species of moths in Britain, many quite spectacular but we seldom see any, here’s how to get started.

Gardening for Wildlife

Wildlife Gardening in August

Christmas Present Ideas for Wildlife Enthusiast – So what will Father Christmas be bring your friends this Xmas? I know what I want! Bees. I had a brief, and painful…

Wildlife Gardening in July

Spring begins to merge into Summer – As the freshness and lime green of the UK spring merges into July so the sound of wildlife changes. Here the dawn chorus is …

Wildlife Gardening in June

Orchids and Photovoltaic Systems – The cold winter and spring has indeed influenced the wildlife. Plants were still flowering later than I might have predicted for…

Wildlife Gardening in May

Wild Orchids – When the calendar shows ‘May’ wildlife enthusiasts think ‘orchids’. Certainly some will flower before this date but now is the main time to start searching.

Wildlife Gardening in April

Yucky UK Wildlife – The recent flash floods in northern Kenya, that have caused chaos in the Samburu National Park remind me of one of the possible positive …

Wildlife Gardening in March

The Importance of Wildlife Gardens – Wildlife in the UK must have been so different before human numbers started to build up in the Bronze Age.

Wildlife Gardening in February

An Insight into the less-fashionable plants – I’m as bad as the next person: I just do not see the less-fashionable plants. Be honest…

Wildlife Gardening in January

You know how it happens. Something, perhaps quite trite, just ‘gets to you’. It nags away at the very seat of one’s soul and whenever one’s guard drops…

Wildlife Gardening in December

Well another series of Autumn Watch has been and gone – and what a delight it has been yet again. We are so fortunate in that the BBC has such an effective …

Wildlife Gardening in October

Controlling the Growth of Grasses – Yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor, is a meadow plant that everyone should know. Not that it is overly showy…

Wildlife Gardening in September

Life and Death in the Countryside. I’m sure you’ll all have similar stories to these but they reflect all our interest, and concern, in wildlife and green issues in general…

Wildlife Gardening in August

A flash of orangey-bronzy-brown was all that was needed to awake me from my quiet contemplation, and for my semi-comatose brain to register that high summer was indeed here.