Materials needed Small watering stations need to be established. This can be as simple as purchasing small watering troughs and placing driftwood around them to allow perches for birds. Or establishing small holes lined with impermeable material to offer drinking stations. Branches or shrubs need to surround half of the watering stations to allow for cover, protection, and perches. Without water the birds and wildlife will dwindle in numbers.
Water is a bigger attractant for wild life than food and is extremely important factor for survival.
Feeding stations are also needed to encourage wildlife to visit trails. Feeding can be a simple procedure. While the naturalist takes their morning walk to identify species and record them on the register, they can carry along a sack of seed and fill feeders and scatter seed in the same places at different levels. Birds eat at different heights, and some become territorial with feeding grounds. Permanent residents are more prone to becoming territorial.