12 Days Wild Christmas

Monday 25th December 2023 to Friday 5th January 2024
When and where you'd like to enjoy wildlife

12 Days Wild is the festive nature challenge from The Wildlife Trusts, encouraging you to do one wild thing a day in those days between Christmas & New Year - Winter wildlife is just waiting to be explored!

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Your wild acts could be little things to help nature - like recycling your Christmas tree or feeding the birds - or ways to connect to the natural world, like walking off your Christmas dinner in the woods or admiring the beauty of stargazing.

Recycle wrapping paper, boxes and plastics, and see what you can reuse
Feeling the crisp air on your skin as you go for a morning walk
Use Christmas leftovers to make bird feeders (such as fat balls & left over nuts, seeds and crackers)
Reuse your Christmas tree to make a log pile shelter for wildlife (remove needles though!)
Make a twig winter decoration
Visit a nature reserve, park or got on a wintery beach walk - See our guide to North Norfolk nature reserves
Go stargazing - The area around Deepdale, particularly Barrow Common is a dark skies area
Listen to nature's own Christmas carol: the crunch of leaves, bark of a roe deer, or screech of a barn owl
Set eco New Year's resolutions
Photograph the frost
Do some winter gardening
Write down three things you're grateful about nature

Share your photos and videos on social media using the hashtag #12DaysWild

Price: Free, just wrap up warm and head outside

Location: Anywhere you enjoy nature & wildlife