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Wildlife in your Garden


The missus is mad about birds (literally mad. Not a day goes by without a conversation about a new improved bird feeder. We're currently up to around 12 all with a flaw necessitating another purchase).

We have a big garden backing onto a field with a small river about 300m beyond. There's a big fence to keep the dog in and rabbits, deer and cattle out. Sadly it means we don't see hedgehogs.

In the garden we have rabbits, grass snakes, sparrows* (an entire city), sparrow hawks, blackbirds, robins , green and lesser spotted woodpeckers, crows, goldfinches, squirrels, buzzards, rats (so many rats; good lord more rats than anfield - largely due to the bird food everywhere and chickens), collared doves oh and so many tits. We have every kind of tit.

And there was a pigeon once.

*my favourite bird by far
 
Eggs said:
I was just cutting the lawn in my back garden and a frog jumped out and hopped to the border. It got me thinking about the creatures i’ve seen in my garden.

I live in West Derby which is a suburb of Liverpool and i’ve been in this house for over 30 years. I reckon i’ve witnessed;

- general British garden birds, but more unusually I have seen quite a few hawks and a heron. I’ve also observed Hedgehogs, squirrels, a rat, a dead field mouse, cats, frogs, dogs and next doors tortoise.

There is so much geographical diversity on here, not just in the U.K. but across the globe and I thought it would be a fascinating insight to see what wildlife others get visiting their gardens. I recall @LinekersLegs mentioning deers in her California garden, I wonder if @TheFinnFan truly sees seal cubs and I dread to think what our Aussie friends witness!!!

So where do you live and what creatures do you see?
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As I live in an apartment block 20km from Brisbane (like Lythan St Annes but not, sort of coastal burbs...if youre really keen to see google margate parade / Mabel St, Margate Qld) I count the beach as my garden, so all sorts of marine stuff from Whales down, Dolphins, manta rays, turtles, carpet sharks, pelicans, various assorted cockatiels and parrots, different types of hawks/raptors.
But you have to go away from the big cities to get the snakes, spiders lizards kangaroos and koalas...and if you have a baby and you go camping keep your eye on then dingos...its all true, there was a case just the other week.
and for something different if you go into the what they call 'the red centre' you'll find the biggest herd of wild camels in the world, 1000s of em.
 
summerisle said:
Horseshoe whip snakes don't sound friendly.
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Like most animals they're ok if you leave them alone,they sometime hibernate in peoples log piles and as a lot of the older Valencians have a phobia of snakes it often ends badly.Saying that I did walk past one on a forest trail last year and even though I gave it plenty of room it still had a go.
 

We now live in Bath and I volunteer for a hedgehog charity. I bought a trail cam to see what was going on in the lane behind my house. I left it there for 2 days and it captured cats, foxes, badgers, weasel (or stoat), a mouse, squirrels and muntjack deer and a rose deer! Could not believe it. Sadly no hedgehogs though.

Last year we were in Sri lanka and I left it out on the edge of the jungle for a night and captured absolutely NOTHING! There is more in my back lane than the sri lankan jungle!
 
chrismpw said:
The missus is mad about birds (literally mad. Not a day goes by without a conversation about a new improved bird feeder. We're currently up to around 12 all with a flaw necessitating another purchase).

We have a big garden backing onto a field with a small river about 300m beyond. There's a big fence to keep the dog in and rabbits, deer and cattle out. Sadly it means we don't see hedgehogs.

In the garden we have rabbits, grass snakes, sparrows* (an entire city), sparrow hawks, blackbirds, robins , green and lesser spotted woodpeckers, crows, goldfinches, squirrels, buzzards, rats (so many rats; good lord more rats than anfield - largely due to the bird food everywhere and chickens), collared doves oh and so many tits. We have every kind of tit.

And there was a pigeon once.

*my favourite bird by far
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House Sparrows are ace, but all but gone from the cities. Little pockets hang on here and there. We`ve got a little colony by me, with about a dozen in it. You hear them before you see them, as they make such a racket, even more so when they`ve got young ones with them.

Starlings are going the same way too.

Because there`s a load of woods by us, we get all kinds depending on the time of year :

Bats, Hedgehog, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, Dunnock, Coal Tit, Jackdaw, Magpie, Blue Tit, Crow, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Starlings, Gold Finch and the odd Green Parrakeet.

So far this year the Robin has had two lots of chicks in a nest box, the Great Tits have had one and a Bumble Bee colony has set up residence in another bird box.
 

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