Make your own wildlife home ~ bee & insect hotel or bird box ~ at Tomaree's Picnic for Nature

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Tomaree National Park

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 backyards and linking to your bush reserve.

On this activity we'll make some insect hotels and bird boxes ~ with thanks to the much appreciated support of the Port Stephens Woodworkers and the generous sponsorship of Port Stephens Packing via Plastic Free Port Stephens, you can make your own wildlife home at an incredibly low cost. The Woodworkers have precut everything and will help you put it together at the Picnic for Nature.

Choose your wildlife home (as pictured above), between ...

- bee & insect hotel, $6* (box pictured in header)

- small wildlife box, $5*

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

- larger bird box $12*, suitable for a larger bird such as an Eastern Rosella (box pictured in header) - SOLD OUT

$5 + $0.63 through to $12 + $0.80. If you need to cancel your order, this fee will not be refunded.

Choose your preferred time to register between 10am and 2pm when booking:

- TImes available: 10.00am, 10.15am, 10.45am, 11.30am, 11.45am, 12.15pm, 1.15pm, 1.30pm.

- TImes sold out: 10.30am, 11am, 12midday, 12.30pm, 12.45pm, 1pm

When booking, each order is limited to 1 wildlife home per person, and up to 4 homes per order. Each time slot has a maximum of 4 wildlife homes with 4 different people. For families or groups with more than 4 people, please make another order however it will need to be at a different time. Note that some time slots may already have an order.

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

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 Packaging and the Friends of Tomaree National Park, a group of the National Parks Association (Hunter Branch), and * EcoNetwork Port Stephens.

This is one of several activities being held as part of the family-friendly Picnic for Nature event at Iris Moore Reserve on the same day.

Be sure to go over to the Picnic for Nature page, register to be in the draw for some wonderful prizes, and check out some of the other activities celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Tomaree National Park

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