Over recent years gardens and allotments have become increasingly important habitats for wildlife, including many species now rare in the wider countryside. As the wider environment loses species, gardens provide a refuge for a huge variety of birds and insects. Other species such as hedgehogs and amphibians may now have significant strongholds in urban back gardens.

Gardens and allotments can also be important wildlife corridors. In our towns, a large proportion of available wildlife habitat is provided by gardens, which are the 'green lungs' of our urban environment.

The revised Biodiversity Action Plan for the county has a plan that includes our garden habitats. We would like to find out how wildlife is using our gardens through this survey and encourage householders and businesses to incorporate features for wildlife in their gardens/grounds through asking for on-line pledges to make gardens more wildlife friendly.

Thank you for taking the time to fill the form in. This information is really useful to us. If you have seen any other wildlife in your garden please let us know by filling in the any other information box at the end of the survey.  A pdf version of the form is available which can be printed off and returned to us by post to: Conservation Section, 40 Spilman St, Carmarthen SA31 1LQ

To help in the identification of wildlife in your garden please visit the garden wildlife pages on www.wildaboutgardens.org. For any further information regarding the survey please contact 01267 224653.

All completed garden wildlife forms received by the 29th October 2010 will be entered into a prize draw to win a wildlife gardening pack, including a wildlife gardening book, bird box and feeder, donated by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales.

Name

 

Address

 

Post Code

 

Telephone

 

Email

 

Is your garden:

In a town
In a village
In the countryside Surrounded by other houses/gardens
Surrounded by open countryside

 

Do you have:

Lawn
Wild Area
Trees
Fruit Trees
Pond
Flower bed
Vegetable Patch
Shrubs
Log Pile
Hedge
Native hedge
non-native hedge
Compost Bin
Window Boxes

 

Features (how many)

 

Bird Feeder

 

Bird Nest Box

 

Bird Bath

 

Bat box

 

Bumblebee nest box

 

Other insect nest box

 

Activities

 

How often do you cut the grass?

once a week
once a fortnight
once a month
other

 

Do you use weed killer or fertiliser on your lawn?

Yes
No

 

Have you ever had brightly coloured (pink, red or yellow) mushrooms growing in your lawn?

Yes
No

 

Do you use slug pellets?

Yes
No

 

Do you use any other form of weed and insect control?

Yes
No

 

Do you feed birds all year round?

Yes
No

 

Just in winter?

Yes
No

 

Just in summer?

Yes
No

 

What food do you feed the birds?

 

Do you own a cat?

Yes
No

 

What have you seen in your garden this year?

 

Birds

Pied Wagtail
Wren
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Long-tailed Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Nuthatch
Magpie
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Bullfinch
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Swallow
Sparrow Hawk
Swift
House Martin

 

Have any of these nested in your garden?

 

Mammals

Bats in attic
Bats in garden
Mole
Fox
Hedgehog
Vole

 

Amphibian and Reptiles

Toad
Frog
Lizard
Slow Worm
Grass snake
Newt

 

Butterflies

Peacock
Comma
Red Admiral
Speckled Wood
Small Tortoiseshell

 

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