Resources and Interaction
Everything You Need to EPIC From HomeBird Week
Watch our video guide to building your very own bird box
Read our guide on the siting and caring for your creation
Bird quizzes and activities for kids to make a kingfisher
Watch the first of our video tutorials – An Introduction to Bird ID
The second in our series of bird ID videos – Common Garden Birds
Bees & Bugs
Fancy helping our bees? Watch our video by local expert Tom Forward and make a bee hotel with things you already have at home.
A fantastic and fun craft activities for children making art from wildflowers
Helping Hands for Hedgehogs
As part of our helping hands for hedgehogs project, we want to know if you have hedgehogs in your garden.
First task, build your own hedgehog tracking tunnel – watch our video on how to do this with just a cardboard box and some paper.
Here’s our map of hedgehog sightings from residents of the project area
River Mammals
To start you off we have some fun fact sheets on water voles, field & bank voles, and shrews
Find out more about harvest mice and yellow necked & wood mice
See our fact sheets to learn more about badgers and foxes.
We loved making casts of animal footprints, watch the “how to” video for a great family activity
No river mammals would be complete with some info on otters and of course the species they are often mistaken for mink.
Things to Watch
The Story So Far – How we got where we are
Photography Skills Part 1 – Using your smart phone
A walk down the river with Alistair (April 2020)
Photography Skills Part 2 – Macro photography for Wildlife
Read the latest update from our Agecraft Project or watch the slideshow
Weekly Quizzes
Below are a selection of quizzes to test your ID skills
Have a go at our bird ID quiz
Here’s a bug quiz and the related answers
Test your Wildflower knowledge and answers
How about Freshwater Invertebrates with answers here
Test your knowledge of all things hedgehog
Think you know mammals? Have a go at this quiz
Get In Touch
Want to lean more about the project or what we hope to be doing in the future? Look around our website or get in touch with us at epic@oart.org.uk.
You can also join or community Facebook page here