Pocket Farm Magazine Wildlife

The plight of the humble (honey) bee

Honey Bee on Sedum

When you consider what they do it’s hard to overplay the role that bees fulfil in our planet’s cycle of life. Here Michael Cook gives us an insight into the current crisis facing the honey bee population and what we can do to overcome it... ...

Project: Build a Bird Box

Bird Box Project

With the BTO’s Bird Box Week just around the corner and the territory battles hotting up it’s time to break out the hammer and nails and give your local birdlife a helping hand onto the property ladder with a homemade avian des res. Failing that you could always enter our competition to win ...

Hedgehog crisis: a prickly problem

Two hedgehogs

The hedgehog population is declining at an alarming rate due to loss of habitat and the consequent environmental pressures such as dwindling food supplies. These timid little creatures are also becoming pray to larger mammals such as badgers who are ...

Bats: Interview with a vampire

Pipistrelle bat on a rock

You’re not exactly the sinister razor-toothed fiend I was expecting. No, we do have this reputation we don’t quite live up to in the flesh and it’s one we certainly don’t deserve. So tell us a bit about yourself? Well, I am a Pipistrelle ...