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I've created a log pile in my garden& already after only a couple of months I have centipedes & woodlice in there as well as a collection of fungi, I'm impressed. So do any of you guys have log piles in your garden for wildlife purposes & what do you have living in them?

Hi Sleepy owl,
I rolled up some of the garden edging which is made of short pieces of bamboo and left hooked it over a fence post, they appear to like it have chuggie pigs and earwigs so far, but over in the log store there is much life..chuggie pigs, field mice, bees, alsorts

I have - I've a large stack of awkward stumps and trunks. All the usual suspects, but sadly no stag beetles yet

I have various piles of logs and twigs in different parts of the garden. The logs are waiting to be sawn up, the twigs are left over from pruning the trees so I shove them under hedges and bushes to create a habitat for wildlife. There's loads of insects, frogs and even a hedgehog around here.

Zoe

A couple of years ago, we cleared a space to park the car and, under the huge pile of pine cuttings, unearthed a nest of slow worms, a scorpion, centipedes as well as the usual earwigs etc. Oh and recently there was a ferral cat which had a litter of kittens in the woodpile for our burner! succesfully moved to a pile we were not going to use for a few months.

battybird wrote:Oh and recently there was a ferral cat which had a litter of kittens in the woodpile for our burner!

Been there - done that


Woodshed Invaders by British Red, on Flickr


Kittens in Woodshed by British Red, on Flickr

Cute...we did not take photos as the mum had actually had them in a small gap between the logs which were in danger of collapsing and crushing them when we removed wood for the fire! Emergency removal took place into a black bin on its side (mum was off somewhere) and when she returned we made lots of noise nearby and she moved them to the other logpile, much safer!