Easton Wildlife Survey

How wildlife friendly is your garden?

This survey asks about the wildlife you have seen in Easton, run by Easton Wildlife Group in partnership with Somerset Wildlife Trust.

In order to gain an award, you need to demonstrate you are making an effort to welcome wildlife in different ways by including features from each of the sections below. The number of features you need depends on the size of your garden: mini (5 features), small (10 features), medium (15 features), large (20 features). Awards may take up to 4 months to arrive and you need to provide your full address.

Please check all the features you have in your garden:

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* 1. What kind of garden do you care for?

Do you look after a churchyard or burial ground? Check out our Wilder Churches scheme here instead.
Do you have an Allotment plot? Apply for our Allotment Award instead.

School grounds

Community Garden

Private garden

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Approximate size of your garden, length and width:

Mini e.g. balcony, courtyard, patio or window box

Small: up to 50m2 in total

Medium: over 50m2 up to 150m2

Large: over 150m2 or with an extra area (e.g. orchard or meadow)

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* 3. Section 1 - WILDLIFE FRIENDLY MANAGEMENT
There are lots of actions you can take to manage your garden in a way which minimises harmful environmental impacts, and promotes long term benefits for wildlife both in your garden and beyond.

Go peat free – check all compost and pot plants

Leave perennials and/or seedheads standing until spring

Leave some lawn to grow longer over spring and summer

Leave areas of leaf litter, brash or log piles over winter for hedgehogs and invertebrates

Go chemical free – protect your soil and go easy on “prey” pest such as greenfly and slugs

Look after your soil – practise the no dig method, and compost garden & kitchen waste

Avoid cutting back hedges or vegetation during breeding season (March-September)

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* 4. Section 2: FOOD
This section is about how much food your garden provides for wildlife throughout the year.

Bird feeders - e.g. seeds, nuts and fat balls.

Nectar rich flowers (not "double flowered")

Shrubs and trees with nuts and berries

Flowers, fruit and seeds available throughout the year

Night opening/scented flowers for insects (and bats)

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* 5. Section 3: SHELTER
This section is about whether your garden provides safe places for wildlife to live, hide and hibernate.

Plant creepers on vertical surfaces or trellis

Dead wood - log piles or big tree stumps

Bird, bat, bug or hedgehog box

At least one mature tree

Features for reptiles to bask or use as hibernacula e.g. stone piles or tin sheets

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* 6. Section 4: WATER
Does your garden help to preserve water resources and provide water for wildlife to drink and as a habitat?

Rain garden – slow the flow

Wildlife pond (can be large or small) - without fish

Bog garden - or permanently wet area

Provide bird bath, bumblebee watering station or other small area of water for wildlife to drink and wash

Save water – e.g. use water butts

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* 7. Section 5 - CONNECTIONS and CORRIDORS
This section is about how joined up your garden is with neighbours gardens and the wider landscape, helping wildlife to move and thrive.

Provide a gap in the fence or wall for hedgehogs

Mixed native hedge (or "fedge" by covering your fences with climbing vegetation)

Minimise light pollution for bats

Proximity to a stream or other waterbody

Encourage your neighbours – talk to them, use signs or open your garden as part of Somerset’s Wilder Open Gardens scheme

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* 8. Please let us know if you have seen any of the following wildlife in your garden or village BETWEEN JUNE - AUGUST 2024.

Hedgehog

Swift

Toad

Slow worm

Damselfly or dragonfly any species

Goldfinch

Bat (any species)

Barn owl

Peacock butterfly

Marbled white butterfly

None of the above

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* 9. Would you like to tell us about any other wildlife you have seen in your garden or village between June - August 2024?

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* 10. Have you noticed any change in the wildlife you see since you've lived in the village?

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* 11. YOUR DETAILS - please provide your FULL address.

Name

House name or Number

Street

Town or village

Postcode

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* 12. Please tick the boxes that confirm how you would like to hear from us.

We promise to never sell your details to other organisations.To find out how we use and protect your personal data and your rights, please see our Privacy Policy.

I would like to sign up to the Team Wilder enews - for monthly updates on training, grants, wildlife recording and community action from Somerset Wildlife Trust.

I would like to hear from Easton Wildlife Group.

Easton Wildlife Survey

How wildlife friendly is your garden?

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* 1. What kind of garden do you care for?Do you look after a churchyard or burial ground? Check out our Wilder Churches scheme here instead.Do you have an Allotment plot? Apply for our Allotment Award instead.

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* 2. Approximate size of your garden, length and width:

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* 3. Section 1 - WILDLIFE FRIENDLY MANAGEMENTThere are lots of actions you can take to manage your garden in a way which minimises harmful environmental impacts, and promotes long term benefits for wildlife both in your garden and beyond.

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* 4. Section 2: FOODThis section is about how much food your garden provides for wildlife throughout the year.

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* 5. Section 3: SHELTERThis section is about whether your garden provides safe places for wildlife to live, hide and hibernate.

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* 6. Section 4: WATERDoes your garden help to preserve water resources and provide water for wildlife to drink and as a habitat?

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* 7. Section 5 - CONNECTIONS and CORRIDORSThis section is about how joined up your garden is with neighbours gardens and the wider landscape, helping wildlife to move and thrive.

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* 8. Please let us know if you have seen any of the following wildlife in your garden or village BETWEEN JUNE - AUGUST 2024.

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* 9. Would you like to tell us about any other wildlife you have seen in your garden or village between June - August 2024?

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* 10. Have you noticed any change in the wildlife you see since you've lived in the village?

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* 11. YOUR DETAILS - please provide your FULL address.

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* 12. Please tick the boxes that confirm how you would like to hear from us.We promise to never sell your details to other organisations.To find out how we use and protect your personal data and your rights, please see our Privacy Policy.

* 1. What kind of garden do you care for?

Do you look after a churchyard or burial ground? Check out our Wilder Churches scheme here instead.
Do you have an Allotment plot? Apply for our Allotment Award instead.

* 3. Section 1 - WILDLIFE FRIENDLY MANAGEMENT
There are lots of actions you can take to manage your garden in a way which minimises harmful environmental impacts, and promotes long term benefits for wildlife both in your garden and beyond.

* 4. Section 2: FOOD
This section is about how much food your garden provides for wildlife throughout the year.

* 5. Section 3: SHELTER
This section is about whether your garden provides safe places for wildlife to live, hide and hibernate.

* 6. Section 4: WATER
Does your garden help to preserve water resources and provide water for wildlife to drink and as a habitat?

* 7. Section 5 - CONNECTIONS and CORRIDORS
This section is about how joined up your garden is with neighbours gardens and the wider landscape, helping wildlife to move and thrive.

* 12. Please tick the boxes that confirm how you would like to hear from us.

We promise to never sell your details to other organisations.To find out how we use and protect your personal data and your rights, please see our Privacy Policy.