Best thing I ever did was add a pond to the garden and keep a selection of flowers with different shapes for different insects, principally bees and moths but we get Bee flies and Humming Bird Hawk moths and Bats the stars of the night. Infill building, big old gardens being sold off to put in luxury flats,
Bungalows, etc. have put paid to lots of animals that I had got used to seeing in the mere 35 years I have lived here. Recently the Green Belt has had chunks given over to development and the Green corridors that few people are aware of have been terminated by luxury developments, trees get cut down and the "contractors" cannot be found.
Any hoo! I shall take up my soap box and walk.