Great tips! Thank you. I'll look in to Landlife. And I'll have to look in to a bog garden to see if we want one; beneath the turf and building rubbish, we have very hard, dry clay soil.
One of the recommendations I've seen twice regarding frogs is not to transfer stuff between ponds because of a risk of disease?
Hedgehogs is something I want to sort. We used to have visitors as our row of houses 'back gardens are linked via an old hedgerow to a big unused plot of land. However, I foolishly blocked up the hole the hedgehogs were using as we were also getting a lot of cats in via the hole who like to shit all over our lawn - which isn't great for our little kids playing in the garden (which they do basically year round). I'm going to restore the hole, but only the recommended 13x13 cm in the hopes that stops the cats.
Hedgehog hotel may be introduced into the hedges that are behind the pond in the picture. That might be step 7 or 8 ha.
We do have a little bee hotel (pre-built, 20x15x15 cm or so of stacked bamboo sticks with an aluminium roof) - but it's always just been overrun by spiders. Any advice?
We don't have any chopped wood - but I might put the hedge trimmings under the hedge instead of in the garden waste bin?
I'm hoping to make it healthy enough that the flying fuckwits (presuming you mean mosquitoes) are kept under predation. We already have a mosquito problem via our back garden as a neighbour has a (I think) neglected pond. Might try and help them get it sorted if all goes well.
We're also not far from a fairly small and sluggish river so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯