May Is "Garden For Wildlife" Month

We piled up branches at one spot for critters to hide under... I know two or three years ago a hedgehog overwintered there. And we left treestumps in the ground to rot, rather than digging them up, which is what I blame for the fact that we tend to find stag beetles in our garden.

We also used to have a sort of "hedge" of borage, which provides nectar at a time in summer where there isn't terribly much, and seeds for the birds later (just to name the most prominent "weed" going to seed; there are more). We also have a cherry tree, which I don't see as a tree that gives us cherries, but one that gives us opportunity to watch birds. XD
(Also strawberries, and red currants, and we fail to get rid of the blackberries...)
And a contorted hazelnut. And a yew bush, which is evergreen and... I'm actually not sure if that one provides berries, it's a bit of an odd cultivar. We've got plants that get eaten by caterpillars (including a patch of stinging nettles), and if mouse holes count as burrows, we got those, too.

We capture rainwater from a shed roof, and we use hardly any pesticides or other poison... I think the only thing we ever got was something you brush directly on leaves, to try to get rid of thistles in the vegetable beds.

Doesn't look good on the water department, but the other categories might be covered.

The local council were writing me nasty letters year before last about my 'untidy' garden... so I sent them a 4 page report on the wildlife in my garden and what I'd been doing to encourage it, plus a printout of the guidelines to wildlife gardening from the DEFRA website, [uK version of the EPA] then pointed out I could technically register it as a site of special scientific interest thanks to the rather rare wild-flower species growing in amongst the long grasses, not to mention the diversity of species of said long grass.

They apologised and I haven't heard from them in over a year now.

I have several apple trees that are the darlings of the local deer herd. My lawn is the preferred place of residence for a florishing colony of moles. Wild turkeys, hawks, owls, bats, chipmunks, and etc. all visit my yard regularly.
About the only bird that hasn't turned up yet is a mockingbird.
:)