17 Jul 🦇🐦 Creating New Homes for Wildlife at Warfield Park

Home Sweet Home Challenge Takes Flight

As part of our ongoing commitment to the David Bellamy Pledge for Nature, we’re delighted to announce the installation of 11 bat boxes and 11 bird nesting boxes throughout the SANG (Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace) at Warfield Park.

This exciting project forms part of the Home Sweet Home Challenge, which encourages parks to create safe spaces where wildlife can live, breed, and thrive. By providing artificial homes in key habitats, we can help support local species that are increasingly struggling to find suitable nesting and roosting locations.

A Team Effort for Nature

A special thank you goes to Aron and Fernando from our Grounds Team, who carefully installed all 22 boxes around the SANG. Their hard work and dedication have helped create valuable new habitats that will benefit local wildlife for years to come.

By selecting suitable locations amongst the trees and surrounding natural areas, Aron and Fernando have helped ensure these boxes provide safe and sheltered places for birds to nest and bats to roost.

Why Bat and Bird Boxes Matter

Many of our native birds and bats rely on natural holes in mature trees or sheltered spaces in buildings. As these habitats become scarcer, artificial nesting and roosting boxes can provide a vital alternative.

The newly installed boxes offer safe spaces for wildlife to raise their young, shelter from the weather, and establish new homes within the SANG. Over time, these habitats can help increase local biodiversity and support healthy, thriving populations of birds and bats.

Bats are particularly important to our ecosystem, feeding on insects and helping to maintain a natural balance. Some species can consume thousands of insects in a single night! Birds also play a vital role through seed dispersal, pollination, and natural pest control.

🌳 Wildlife-Friendly Installation
In keeping with our commitment to nature conservation, no drilling was used when installing the bat and bird boxes. Instead, Aron and Fernando secured each box using special stretchy Velcro straps that gently wrap around the branches and trunks. The flexible material stretches as the trees grow, preventing damage and allowing both the trees and their new wildlife residents to thrive side by side.

Supporting Biodiversity Across the SANG

The SANG already provides a rich variety of habitats, including woodland, grassland and hedgerows. The addition of 22 new wildlife homes will further enhance these spaces, creating more opportunities for nesting, breeding and shelter.

We’re excited to see which species take up residence and look forward to monitoring the boxes as part of our ongoing biodiversity efforts.

Looking Ahead

Installing bird and bat boxes is just one of the many projects being delivered through our David Bellamy Pledge for Nature 2026 initiatives. Together with our bee hives, hedgehog homes, bug hotels and other wildlife projects, these new additions help make Warfield Park an even better place for nature.

🦇 Wildlife Fact

A single pipistrelle bat can eat up to 3,000 insects in one night, making bats one of nature’s most effective natural pest controllers.

Many familiar birds, including blue tits, great tits and robins, will readily use nest boxes when suitable natural nesting sites are limited.

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