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by Bird
Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: Other Animals and Insects
Topic: Squirrel
Replies: 112
Views: 117460

Re: Squirrel

They certainly are Willpar!
Also, they make us get inventive about how to protect hanging feeders. :D
I honestly don't know how Cheeky avoids getting his rather large wheels caught on a twig or something. :laugh:
by Bird
Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Hedgehogs
Topic: Your Garden Hedgehogs
Replies: 1415
Views: 1223701

Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Oh there's no shortage of slugs here - they're mad slugs mind, but I never kill them.
by Bird
Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Birds
Topic: STARLINGS
Replies: 476
Views: 457388

Re: STARLINGS

Starlings are awesome aren't they? We name all ours as they live in the roof - one year, a parent was shouting like mad because a pre-fledgling was running up and down the guttering. This one turned out to be a right daredevil and acrobat, he gets in the feeders which only sparrows can, he's called ...
by Bird
Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: Birds
Topic: BIRD FEEDING
Replies: 470
Views: 428301

Re: BIRD FEEDING

:D
Yeah I dread to think how many are in our guttering, lol! It's due for a clean about now, I don't think I'll want the nuts now though..
by Bird
Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:00 am
Forum: Birds
Topic: WHAT I SAW TODAY.....
Replies: 2056
Views: 1514199

Re: WHAT I SAW TODAY.....

Jacksparrow - re my friend with the ducks/fox, I had horses on his land a few years ago, and often I'd go up there about 4 or 5am. One morning I caught the vixen trotting down the hill after her two cubs, who were literally gambolling and rolling down the grassy slope - utterly beautiful! We also st...
by Bird
Sat Jun 15, 2024 11:22 pm
Forum: Hedgehogs
Topic: Your Garden Hedgehogs
Replies: 1415
Views: 1223701

Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Yes they are aren't they? I rarely feed them, but there was a hedgehog rescue up the road until last year, so I'm sure people will be putting food out for them and looking out for them now she's gone. I don't know what they find to eat in my garden, but there's something!
by Bird
Sat Jun 15, 2024 11:15 pm
Forum: Birds
Topic: WHAT I SAW TODAY.....
Replies: 2056
Views: 1514199

Re: WHAT I SAW TODAY.....

Ha! Ya never know. :D

Yeah we're semi rural here, and tons of people feed the birds, which keeps other wildlife going. My mate down the road puts a bit of food out for his resident foxes, as he's got lots of ducks and a few other birds, so it's in all their interests!
by Bird
Sat Jun 15, 2024 11:07 pm
Forum: Birds
Topic: BIRD FEEDING
Replies: 470
Views: 428301

Re: BIRD FEEDING

Agreed! My feeders get topped up in the morning, and the dishes of seed are empty in an hour. I like to give them a treat sometimes, and in return, they often drop walnuts into my garden that they can't open, so I get free nuts. :D
by Bird
Sat Jun 15, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: Birds
Topic: WHAT I SAW TODAY.....
Replies: 2056
Views: 1514199

Re: WHAT I SAW TODAY.....

Well yesterday.. new starling babies from the nest in the roof, the first lot were sat around with 15 other youngsters. We have a quiet visiting rook, and I heard him cawing for the first time, looked out and he was with his young uns. There's lots of little fluttering sparrows and greenfinches arou...
by Bird
Sat Jun 15, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: Other Animals and Insects
Topic: BEES
Replies: 112
Views: 126907

Re: BEES

We have a few bees, but I have lots of salvias so they're usually a constant hum at this time of year. :(
As for butterflies, we live in quite a rural place, and yet we hardly have any - a few cabbage whites mostly, and the odd totoiseshell.