Would you like to encourage wildlife into your backyard?

Our yards can be great habitat, and important stepping stones or links for wildlife ~ birds, bees, butterflies, bugs and beetles ~ connecting up plots of bush from the national park through backyard links to your bush reserves.

On this activity we’ll make bee & insect hotels and bird boxes ~ and at the Picnic for Nature you’ll find out more ways of making homes for wildlife.

With thanks to the much appreciated support of the Port Stephens Woodworkers, and the sponsorship of Port Stephens Packing through Plastic Free Port Stephens, you can make your own wildlife home at an incredibly low cost. 

Choose (as pictured above), between …

– bee & insect hotel $6* (pictured in header)

– kiddies wildlife box, $5*

– smaller bird box $8*, suitable for a smaller bird such as a White-throated Treecreeper

– larger bird box $12*, suitable for a larger bird such as an Eastern Rosellas (pictured in header)

Choose your preferred time to register between 10am and 2pm, each half hour, when booking.

Children U/10 must be supervised by a parent or guardian, and U/18 a parent or guardian at the site. 

BOOKINGS are essential

Be sure to REGISTER YOUR INTEREST in the Picnic for Nature and be in the draw for some wonderful prizes.

We’ll be providing more information about the best locations for placing your insect hotels and bird boxes ~ how to attach, nest box materials, what you need in your backyard and what else you can do to create wildlife homes in your back yard.

This activity is brought to you by a collaboration of * Woodworkers Port Stephens * Port Stephens Packing * EcoNetwork Port Stephens * Friends of Tomaree National Park, a group of the National Parks Association (Hunter Branch).

he Picnic for Nature is jointly hosted by the * National Parks and Wildlife Service * National Parks Association * Friends of Tomaree National Park * EcoNetwork Port Stephens