Insect Hotel
We saw this Insect Hotel in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Madrid.
A great many people were showing interest in it
We don’t exactly have a hotel for wildlife on our balconies but we certainly do have ants, a few geckos, some spiders, unidentified insects and visiting pigeons.
The ants and geckos are welcome but not the pigeons or the dove which keeps making a very imperfect nest in the bougainvillea. One year we had a pair of pigeons in a nest in a trough on the outside of the canopy. We used to lift up the flap when we were at breakfast to see how the two babies were doing.
I was going to recommend you to read THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN numbers 83, 85 and 86 to read the articles by Melissa Hamilton about making gardens wildlife friendly.
Then I discovered the page on the MGS website with at least one of her articles and all sorts of other information.
http://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/wildlife.htmlDisappointingly, for us, we have not seen any swallows this year. Where have they all gone? Have all their old nests been destroyed? On the other hand the pine trees in the backyard and a ficus – in the adjoining backyard seem to be full of Sparrows by the noise they make at dawn and again at sunset. What are they talking about and why so much moving around? Are they discussing the day’s events or are they quarrelling about who sits where?
My imagination runs away with itself