They certainly are Willpar!
Also, they make us get inventive about how to protect hanging feeders.
I honestly don't know how Cheeky avoids getting his rather large wheels caught on a twig or something.
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 ...
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...
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!
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!
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.
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...
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.