Wildlife in your Garden

[Frang]

Still walking?

flat in the road.... same with frogs, used to see loads of squished frogs ..

they both like white dogger on a path... a thing of the past

 

[anton66]

flat in the road.... same with frogs, used to see loads of squished frogs ..

they both like white dogger on a path... a thing of the past

Think all the white dog crap is put into veggie sausages.

 

[SerenityNigh]

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?

I live on the edge of the woods (literally), so have maybe seen more than some, at least in proportion to what lives around here. Beyond the typical small wildlife, we get frequent visits from deer, raccoons, and (o)possums. I've heard coyotes but not seen these. The guy who lived here before us has seen a fox and hogs too, but I'm yet to see either of these.

 

[Eggs]

I live on the edge of the woods (literally), so have maybe seen more than some, at least in proportion to what lives around here. Beyond the typical small wildlife, we get frequent visits from deer, raccoons, and (o)possums. I've heard coyotes but not seen these. The guy who lived here before us has seen a fox and hogs too, but I'm yet to see either of these.

...remind me where you live?

 

[SerenityNigh]

...remind me where you live?

NW Lousiana, in a moderately sized town, or near its outer limits, bounded to the South by a relatively large area of undeveloped woodland and swampy lake

 

[Frang]

...remind me where you live?

the edge of the woods mush, hes just told you

 

[Frang]

NW Lousiana, in a moderately sized town, or near its outer limits, bounded to the South by a relatively large area of undeveloped woodland and swampy lake

baton rouge?

 

[TommyDavo]

baton rouge?

Depends who he finds in the swamp

 

[kev]

Post a pic of your 'pecker *mods may wish to consider a pre-emptive thread ban for @Bungle at this point

 

[roydo]

Bottom part of the garden is basically hollow due to a large rabbit warren down there, so tons of them that get caught by cats and the like. Pheasants do their mating dances every spring, which is sound.

Deer, usually confused young'uns, come down from the woods till their Mum chivies them back up the hill, foxes, rats, (but hardly any since our 2 cats grew a pair), are pretty frequent.

Best of all is a woodpecker though. Who ever designed them having to build a nest in a tree trunk had a sense of humour I guess. They are tiny.

 

[Tipp blue]

Grass snakes and Adders

And slow worms

 

[Tipp blue]

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.

House sparrows are Kopites. I'm having a running battle with one that's trying to build right above the front door, every evening I get a 2 by 1 and knock down what they've built, they built it there last year and there was sh1t all over where we had to walk out. No nest this year bitch3s

 

[Dutch Toffee]

Bit the same as you Eggs, but also stone marten, jays, badgers, rabbits, hares, a fox, a diverson of birds of preys and once even an eagle owl. Must have a picture of it on one of my old phones.

 

[kev]

House sparrows are Kopites. I'm having a running battle with one that's trying to build right above the front door, every evening I get a 2 by 1 and knock down what they've built, they built it there last year and there was sh1t all over where we had to walk out. No nest this year bitch3s

Just put up a nesting box in a suitable site nearby before next spring

 

[bol-uk]

This guy was in my front yard a few years back:
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And a few summers ago, my dog kept staring into my deck.
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I couldn't figure it out, but finally I went under my deck and found these guys who had nested in a ventpipe:
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COOL