Wildlife in your Garden
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kittyP
Pluviophile
Maybe you let a doctor have a look at that?
There were two of my pecky friends having a full on fight in the doorway of our local shop this evening.
Beaks totally locked!
I saw a Blue Jay (I think) at work today.
panpete
Blokes name, birds body.
Just popped into the kitchen to make myself a coffee and spotted this watching me from the garden.
What wildlife visits your garden?
Theres a small park what my flat looks out on.
Twice, about six oclock on a misty morning, I have seen dear, its magic.
Foxes.
Squirrels.
Loads of other little furries, but they hide.
an array of birds.
Love listening to the owls in the dead of night.
panpete
Blokes name, birds body.
These are nicer looking, if rare, visitors.
Woof
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whatsit please?I like it.
Nice long arched back
Leafster
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The first few times I saw deer in the garden it was early in the morning but they seem to be getting braver as they seem to wander around during the day now.
Leafster
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I think it's a Civet.ah
I like it.
Nice long arched back
These bastards grow up to about 12 inches.
And they're poisonous!
Can give you quite a start if they run over your bare foot when yer watching telly on a warm summer evening.
Woof
I was going to lecture you on how UK centipedes aren't poisonous until I clocked your next post. My ex has a giant pet centipede that is currently loose in his hoose. Ha, ha, and indeed ha.
I got my first piece of wildlife on my balcony: a tiny spiderling who made a tiny web in the pigeon netting
I have to admit when I started this thread I didn't think about posters from other than the UK posting their garden visitorsbut it's been interesting to see what Jessiedog has visiting her garden although I'm glad I don't get the centipedes!
We do get some fairly "exotic" species here. Just please don't mention the cockroaches - large, ubiquitous and scary.
Then there's the bloody mosquitos. There's nary a day throughout summer when I'm not itching the huge weals on my arms and legs.
A few years ago, I got up for a wee in the middle of the night and, in the living room, two of the dogs were sat staring at one of these which was sat, coiled up, in the middle of the room.
Oh bloody great!
A bamboo snake (a rather venomous pit viper).
I spent three weeks in the NW London suburbs recently and was absolutely delighted watching the foxes in me mums back garden, along with the plethora of garden birds (robins, woodpigeon, thrushes, blackbirds, jays, magpies, tits, et al. Oh! And the kestrels nesting in an old crows nest in the willow tree at the top of the road).
Woof
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
No garden here but some trees outside and a private garden for the gated community opposite. I have seen some bluetits, we also have wrens nesting in the bushes alongside the pathways between the blocks of flats. I have been following the lives of a pair of very fat, glossy, and healthy looking wood pigeons that roost in the tree outside my window for many years now, last year they seemed to produce a staggering number - at least in terms of pigeon clutch size - of equally fat and glossy (once they were out of the fuzzy stage of course) offspring, suggesting that life is very good indeed in woodpigeonland. That pair have been here longer than I have. We also get many foxes of course.
Hiya Pip,
Yeah. I've heard some people keep them as pets. Mental if you ask me. They are poisonous, not usually fatal to adults, but can make your arm swell up like a balloon.
They can grow fucking HUGE!
I got my first piece of wildlife on my balcony: a tiny spiderling who made a tiny web in the pigeon netting
Woof
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Back home we see these sometimes:
But mostly we see deer, hawks, bald eagles and coyotes. Back at the nuisance patch, I looked out the back door and saw about the dozen deer. Some of them were so close they were on the wheelchair ramp that leads up to the door.
But mostly we see deer, hawks, bald eagles and coyotes. Back at the nuisance patch, I looked out the back door and saw about the dozen deer. Some of them were so close they were on the wheelchair ramp that leads up to the door.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Hiya Pip,
Yeah. I've heard some people keep them as pets. Mental if you ask me. They are poisonous, not usually fatal to adults, but can make your arm swell up like a balloon.
They can grow fucking HUGE!
Woof
I'm usually the girl in the office they call when a spider needs taken care of, but I wouldn't touch that.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
a few years back there were cubs - one occasion, two of them were sat outside the patio window thing watching the telly...
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
fox cubbage
the lines in the foreground is net curtain - that's how close they were
yes, vaguely
the lines in the foreground is net curtain - that's how close they were
yes, vaguely
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I have been over to mum-tat's place today (south east london)
The resident foxes have got 5 foxlings this year.
Think they must be about 6 weeks old - in the process of turning from grey to red. They didn't really stay still long, think I only got one photo with all five of them in. There are 2 adults, presume it's mum and dad fox. This is just outside the kitchen window.
The resident foxes have got 5 foxlings this year.
Think they must be about 6 weeks old - in the process of turning from grey to red. They didn't really stay still long, think I only got one photo with all five of them in. There are 2 adults, presume it's mum and dad fox. This is just outside the kitchen window.
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