Wonderful ways to help wildlife this summer season

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As you become more aware of the world around you, it seems saddening that our planet is under threat. If we don’t do our part to take care of the beautiful world around us, it won’t be here for our great great grandchildren to enjoy. You may have created the perfect family home, but we are having a huge impact on animal’s homes without even realizing. Helping wildlife is something everyone can do with a minimal amount of effort. Whether you’re feeding the birds or reducing the amount of household waste you produce, you can start doing your part this summer season.

For the love of nature - UK's rarest wildlife

As you may already know from previous blog posts and the photographs we share here and on our social media we are a family who loves the great outdoors and the wonderful things that good old mother nature has to offer. We are in our element when outdoors having adventures and love exploring. We also love seeing wondrous wildlife when we are out and about enjoying the fresh air of the great outdoors.

Living in picturesque Pembrokeshire in Wales and only a short drive to stunning Cardigan bay, we are very fortunate to have lots of breathtaking countryside and marvellous shores to explore and see.

Ideal family days out for us are days such as enjoying and exploring the beach with a spot of rock pooling, trekking along coastal paths where we can enjoy breathtaking views and be fortunate to see a variety of creatures and birds on our travels, and delving into and walking through woodlands that are filled with magnificent trees and a host of wildlife.

Being a family who loves nature and wildlife, not only are our family days out planned to satisfy our enjoyment of the great outdoors but our family holidays are also planned with what the area has to offer nature wise as well. Thanks to Haven Holidays who have created a naturetastic PDF guide all about where to spot some of the UK’s rarest wildlife, we have lots of ideas about where to holiday next so that we can experience some of the rarest wildlife that this beautiful isle has to offer.

Let's Grow Wild! #GrowWild

I have always loved spending my time outdoors in nature and since having Bug my love of being outdoors has been rekindled thanks to the many moments we have had together exploring and playing outdoors.  We love the great outdoors and love nothing more than enjoying time together as a family having fun outdoors come rain or shine, relishing in the wonder of Mother Nature. 

I have many fond memories of our time spent together in the great outdoors such as the time we had a rainy day adventure at the beach where we were the only ones mad enough to brave the beach in the rain, the bank holiday when Bug was a muddy mess as he played in the mud during a lovely walk in the countryside and when Bug loved getting green fingered and having fun getting into a mucky mess as he took part in a Kids Grow Wild challenge.

Whilst I love being outdoors regardless of the weather or time of year, and appreciate all of the seasons and all types of weather for their own unique, special reasons there is something enchanting about spring and summer when flowers are emerging and blossoming into beautiful blooms.  I love walking in the countryside, appreciating the wildlife and admiring wild flowers that attract insects, beautiful buzzing bumble bee’s collecting pollen and fluttering butterflies.

Our moments that mattered in 2013.

Being a parent there are so many moments throughout the year that matter, milestones and skills are mastered, achievements and adventures are accomplished and your child grows up so fast, changing and growing up in a blink of an eye.  As I cherish the moments that matter, especially moments with Bug I try to capture all moments ,from little everyday moments and seeing the joy and specialness in the mundane to big special, once in a life time moments, in photographs so that I can treasure the moments that matter to me forever.

2013 was a pretty eventful year for us.  Bug had his second birthday and throughout the year he changed, mastering new milestones and gaining new skills, all the while getting bigger and growing up so quickly in front of my eyes.  As well as learning new words and polishing his language skills some of the other new skills Bug has learned includes peddling a trike, balancing on one foot, fine-tuning his football skills, falling in love with counting and singing his A,B,C’s to mummy and potty training to be dry both in the day and the night.

As well as experiencing good, positive moments during 2013 we also faced a number of hurdles, with trials and tribulations testing us throughout the year from our dog going missing for days, a large fire risking our lives and our home and a car accident which ended with our car being a right off.

Thankfully we overcame the trials and tribulations with the happy, memorable moments shining through the hardship we endured and the year ended on a high for us when we moved house not long before Christmas to a lovely new home in a brand new area.

Amongst the milestone achievements, the fun and adventures and the trials and tribulations some of my most memorable moments from 2013 are from the few days we had during a small family holiday a few miles from home.  Even though the holiday was not an expensive holiday and not far from home we had lots of fun, spending enjoyable days together as a family and making the most of daddy’s days off from work.

As we had so much fun together as a family during our little holiday when Lloyds Bank recently asked me what my moments that mattered were for 2013 our family holiday sprang to mind.  A few of the memorable moments from our holiday in beautiful Wales –

Bird feeding safety tips.

Living in the rural countryside we get to enjoy Mother Nature at her best.  We are very lucky where we live that we get to appreciate the wildlife of the countryside all around us, being able to enjoy the beauty of the countryside and see all the amazing creatures and animals that also call this area home.

I love living in the rural countryside especially as this lovely area has such an array of wild creatures for Bug to see and learn about.  With wild birds flourishing in the beautiful countryside surroundings of our home wild birds have become one of Bug’s favourite wild creatures to look for on our countryside adventures.

As Bug loves seeing wild birds, enjoying mimicking them as they fly in the sky I want to teach Bug about the different varieties of birds and encourage his love and appreciation of our wild winged friends.  When we go on country walks we look out for any wild birds and I tell Bug about the birds as we observe our wonderful winged friends.  We watch birds soar in the sky, admire them flitting along peacefully, listen to bird sounds and watch small woodland birds dart and scamper along trees and shrubs. 

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As well as teach Bug about birds whilst on country walks I am encouraging his interest in wild birds by getting him to help me feed the local birds in bird feeders in our garden.  Having bird feeders in our garden gives Bug an ideal opportunity to see and learn about birds when they visit our garden to feel.  Not only am I teaching him about the birds that visit our garden to feed, I am also hoping that as he helps feed birds in our garden he will develop an understanding of how to feed safely so that we can keep our feathered friends safe when they visit our garden to feed.

"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?" - David Attenborough