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Norfolk Wildlife Trust has produced a series of leaflets on all aspects of wildlife - from gardening and composting to specific plants and animals. Click on the links below that you are interested in to open a print-ready PDF of the leaflet

Garden Wildlife

Bumblebees
Summer wouldn’t be summer without the gentle buzzing of bees. Bees are vital pollinators in our gardens, but sadly many bee species are under threat. You can help bumblebees by making your garden ‘bee friendly’.

Composting
Every wildlife friendly garden needs a compost heap. Creating a compost heap in your garden is easy. As well as providing a home for wildlife it will provide free fertiliser for your garden and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill sites.

Create your own Poppyland
Growing these attractive wildflowers in your garden is not only a colourful reminder of Norfolk’s wildlife heritage but will bring your garden to life with butterflies, bees and hoverflies.

Deadwood
You can help wildlife by providing dead wood within your garden. Many species of lichens, mosses, fungi and invertebrates depend for part or all of their life cycle on the presence of dead wood.

The Night Shift
You may be familiar with the wildlife inhabiting your garden by day, but what about the night shift? A wholly different cast of wildlife characters uses your garden during the hours of darkness. Getting to know them can prove a fascinating and addictive pastime.

Solitary Bees
Bees are fun to watch and bring life and movement to gardens from early spring to autumn. Most people are only familiar with bumblebees but of around 250 species of bee found in the UK the vast majority are solitary bees.

Norfolk Wild File

The following leaflets provide information on 36 of Norfolk's wildlife species, illustrated with drawings and colour identification charts. They have identification tips, as well as ways to make your sightings count.

Adder
Badger
Barn Owl
Bee Orchid
Bullfinch
Bumble Bee
Comma
Cowslip
Chinese Water Deer
Frog
Great Crested Newt
Glowworm
Grass Snake
Grey Partridge
Hare
Harebell
Harvest Mouse
Hummingbird Hawk Moth
Hedgehog
Hornet
House Sparrow
Kingfisher
Maybug
Mistletoe
Norfolk Hawker
Otter
Poppy
Saxifrage
Slow Worm
Song Thrush
Spotted Flycatcher
Swallowtail
Toad
Turtle Dove
Water Vole
Yellowhammer