Right now there is a heat wave, and that means that it can be a more challenging time for wild animals. However, you can help them through this challenging time.
By being kind and considerate, you can help wild animals through this heat wave.
Here are some main ways that you can help wild animals:
Providing Water For Wild Animals
One of the best ways that you can help wild animals through this warm weather, is by providing them with water. This water can either be in a bird bath, or in a shallow bowl in the garden. Just by providing wild animals with a source of water in your garden, you can and will be helping wild animals like birds survive through the warm weather. Water becomes even more important for wild animals as the temperature increases, as they need to keep hydrated and water systems that they normally rely on to survive - such as streams - might dry up, and therefore, it becomes more difficult for wild animals to survive this weather.
Tip: Although water in your garden will help wild animals, please make sure that your bird bath and shallow bowl of water has an easy way out for animals to climb out of it.
Providing Food For Wild Animals
Another good way to help wild animals through the warm weather, is to provide them food in your garden. Providing them food can also help them survive, because they depend on food for their survival. There are many different wild animals that you can provide food for in your garden, such as: birds, hedgehogs and foxes. There is specially made food for wild animals like foxes, hedgehogs and birds - you can find this food in places like Amazon, or pet stores.
Tip: Provide food for animals like birds off of the ground, in places like bird feeders, so that the birds aren’t vulnerable to predators such as cats.
Providing Shelter For Wild Animals
One more way that you can help animals through this warm weather, is by providing wild animals with shelter. By providing wild animals with shelter, you not only give them a place to stay, you also give them a place to take shelter in the shade from the sun.
There are many ways that you can provide shelter for wild animals, such as through bird boxes, bat boxes, bee hives, insect hotels and hedgehog and toad homes. You can also provide shelter for them through the good old fashion way of planting flowers, plants, trees and bushes in your garden.
Tip: Try and make sure that you place bird boxes in a place where the sun isn’t going to shine brightly on it. Also, try and provide natural shelter for animals that come in your garden by planting things such as flowers and bushes - these can be excellent places for insects to take shelter in, and other small animals.
Conclusion
There are three simple ways that you can help wild animals through this warm weather: by providing food, by providing water and by providing shelter. This will help your local wild animals significantly, and can also be the difference between life and death for them - by providing this help for them, you can help save their life!