Wildlife in your Garden

[verreauxi]

This guy was in my front yard a few years back:


And a few summers ago, my dog kept staring into my deck.



I couldn't figure it out, but finally I went under my deck and found these guys who had nested in a ventpipe:

 

[Toast]

Stopping hedgehogs from entering your garden is pretty spineless behaviour.

*(Resists making comment about pricks)

I'm sick of pulling them out of my dogs mouths at 2am.

 

[kev]

This guy was in my front yard a few years back:
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Now THAT is what you call a garden

 

[Cool_Blue]

Friggin seagulls crapping on everything.......the patio, the chairs, the fences, the car. Doing my head in.

 

[Eggs]

Now THAT is what you call a garden

...that’s just his ‘front yard’, his garden is something else!!

 

[Baines' left foot]

There’s a cat about the size of a labrador that pops over to my garden frequently.

 

[larbert toffee]

Up here in Scotland I'v had hedgehogs, wild rabbits (front and back gardens, grey squirrels, nesting wren and bluetits, the usual array of common garden birds plus a common woodpecker and a very menacing looking sparrowhawk which leaves the odd pile of pigeon feathers and carcass for me to deal with now and again.

 

[Frang]

There’s a cat about the size of a labrador that pops over to my garden frequently.

ive seen a cat wandering down our street with a fully grown rabbit , or hare even , hanging out its gob!

 

[Frang]

Up here in Scotland I'v had hedgehogs, wild rabbits (front and back gardens, grey squirrels, nesting wren and bluetits, the usual array of common garden birds plus a common woodpecker and a very menacing looking sparrowhawk which leaves the odd pile of pigeon feathers and carcass for me to deal with now and again.

whats with the bracket?

 

[blueloon]

Not quite “in my garden” but about six years ago I started creating a Wildflower Meadow on a steep slope of waste ground over the fence. This year it hit its peak and is a haven for bees and butterflies and lots of other things .

 

[Frang]

Not quite “in my garden” but about six years ago I started creating a Wildflower Meadow on a steep slope of waste ground over the fence. This year it hit its peak and is a haven for bees and butterflies and lots of other things .

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I think the Bee population is dwindling is it not ?? good on you for doing that

@chrismpw

 

[blueloon]

I think the Bee population is dwindling is it not ?? good on you for doing that

@chrismpw

Yep , it was my main motivation, to help bees . The big blue flower is called Viper’s Bugloss , and it’s just amazing how many bees even one plant attracts....... it’s been a good year for the Bugloss

 

[larbert toffee]

whats with the bracket?

Grammatical error, anyway what are you doing in this thread? oh yeah, birds and bees.

 

[ijjysmith]

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/so-just-mowed-my-lawn.44750/#post-1253613

What a great thread.

Anyway I basically live opposite a farm these days so you name it we get it. Mainly the cats bring back shrews and mice. But seen foxes, badgers, pheasants, rabbits, hates, sheep obvs, cows in the distance, horses ride past all day, and have also seen frogs and umm that might be it. Oh one hedgehog.

Oh and we have Kites in the sky which apparently used to be dead rare but aren’t so much these days. They’re massive.

 

[ijjysmith]

Oh and there was a hornet in the garage the other day. I basically souled myself and legged it out of there hoping it would die.