A purple heron gathering nesting materials in Donana National Park, Spain.
If you you would like to help our birds during the breeding season, it’s not too late to put up a nest box in your garden. The RSPB do a great line of ready-made nest boxes or you could even make your own. Search ‘how to make a nest box’ on the Internet, you and you’ll find lots of simple plans.
Here’s a useful link: Click here