Attracting Wildlife to your Garden

About this book

Offers many practical suggestions on planning a wildlife garden, attracting, observing and feeding garden wildlife. There is also useful information on the benefits of each species to the gardener, and the most benign ways of handling unwanted visitors. A directory of over 140 common species of mammals, amphibians, reptiles, insects and other invertebrates most commonly encountered in the garden aids identification and offers guidelines on the habitat, food and shelter requirements of each species.

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Biography

John Burton is the author and editor of nearly 40 books on natural history. Actively involved in wildlife conservation since the early 1970s, in 1989 he founded the World Land Trust, which he directs, and has helped acquire over 300,000 acres in various parts of the world. He is a vice President of the Bat Conservation Trust, and has been on the committees and councils of numerous national, local and international wildlife bodies. John lives in Suffolk. David Tipling is a professional wildlife and landscape photographer, who runs his own photographic agency, Windrush Photos, and is winner of a number of photographic awards. He writes regularly for Birdwatching, one of Britain's leading magazines for birdwatchers. He is the photographer for The National Parks and Other Wild Places of Britain and Ireland, also published by New Holland. He lives in Kent.