Matt Nayler

@nayler.bsky.social

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IT consultant, treehugger and general geeky Brit. Lover of all things nature and conservation. Occasional player with RaspberryPis and other maker things. Location 📌: Ormskirk, Lancashire, England

A slightly less threadbare flowerbed than it was before.
A panoramic photo from the path across the field.
Two large spiders hanging close together. As the morning went on these two kept getting closer and closer to each other. However, by the afternoon only one remained in this corner.
The back field appears to be set aside this summer for nature.
A still threadbare flowerbed but now with more colour from a number of flowers.
A diy, open-air, hedgehog feeding station. with three ceramic bowls for food ans another for water. Now lit up by a small led strip.
The first set of flowers in a rough, threadbare, patchy, wildflower meadow at the bottom of my garden.
A hedgehog checking out my feeding station. Then rushing away down the garden.
A large brown & orange moth on my window frame waiting to be released.
Here is a clip of a blackbird worming in my freshly mowed lawn.
A 2m x 2m #SayNoMow area in my back garden lawn.
Daisies growing in between some pavings.
Hedgehog walking towards an open-air hedgehog feeding station on the lawn in my garden. This was recorded today at 04:11.
A magpie checking out the hedgehog feeding station which is on my lawn.
A foxglove in full flower.
A hedgehog feeding station. It is built around three of those ceramic feeding bowls from RSPB. The base is slatted for easy cleaning. The feet on the base are 250mm wide to keep it stable. The roof overhang is low 145mm which stops cats from feeding from it.
My open-air hedgehog feeding station, refreshed and restocked back on my lawn.
A foxglove under the tree canopy
Large wooden owl carved into a tree at Ruff Wood in Ormskirk. Along a leaf covered trail.
A washing line bird feeding station alongside a hedge. This simply uses multiple hanging bird feeders on a wire between two posts. This should stop just a few bigger birds dominating the feeders and also confuse any squirrels. On the patio at the bottom of the photo is a hedgehog feeding station and an auto-refilling water bowl.
Two posts on the left along side a hedgerow. Currently they are being held in place by some temporary diagonal supports.
A relatively large brown moth resting on the side of an old light fitting.
Three juvenile robins feeding together on my squirrel picnic bench.
A lawn left after #NoMowMay. With buttercups and multiple types of clovers in flower.
A woodpigeon eating on top of my squirrel picnic bench.
A hedgehog climbing up on to a miniature picnic bench.
A magpie hopping on to a very small picnic table to eat some bird seed.
A very small picnic bench, freshly painted in green. Currently drying on a table.
An old open-air solar powered hedgehog feeder.
Two hedgehogs on my patio. One dancing and grunting, whilst the other is circling it trying to get back to the food.
Two hedgehogs on my patio. One dancing and grunting, whilst the other is circling it trying to get back to the food.
An infrared clip of a hedgehog using my open-air hog feeding station.
Glass water bowl with an upturned bottle of water to keep it full on hot days. It could do with a fresh coat of paint
A juvenile blackbird inspecting what has been left in this open-air hedgehog feeding station on my patio.
Hedgehog visiting the open air feeding station on my patio.
Carved owl on a wooden post at one of the entrances to the woods. With the words "Welcome to"
The before photo of me with a long but far too grey beard.
The pond at my old house. With snake's-head fritillary in flower on the left, and some marsh marigold just coming out on the pond.
An open fronted nestbox on the left. And a classic nestbox on the right, with a small hole suitable for bluetits.
An old bark covered nestbox back on the fence ready for another guest to make it a home.
Infra red photo of my wildlife pond with three frogs sticking there heads out of the water waiting for the females to arrive.