wild life in your backyard

[loud 1]

every summer we have ducks wander into our kitchen and beg for food.

one day the little bugger got in and sat next to me dead quiet for about an hour,it was ace!


didnt say much tho.

 

[rubbershoes]

that's the thing about ducks

no fucking manners

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Had 6 squirrels outside waiting for nuts this morning.
I was feeding one until a few weeks back but I think he's told his mates and now they are gradually increasing in number by the day.
We get lots of foxes around here.
Hedgehogs.
Rats.
What seems like thousands of magpies, they all seem to congregate on one roof, just a few houses down. Screeching, horrible things.

 

[mrskp]

I remember one fox crossing the Old Kent Road at the traffic lights and turning his head to the right to watch out for cars. they did stop for the fox.

one used to regularly stroll past me in south norwood with his hoody up hissing through his teeth at me, covered in bling.

 

[trashpony]

I fucking hate foxes. I've got a family of them living under the knackered old shed at the bottom of the garden (which doesn't belong to me). They've stolen a shoe from my house, regularly drag nappies and bits of vile meaty bones into the garden, break my garden lights and have chewed through about five sets of fairy lights since I've been here. Little bastards.

I'm not very keen on squirrels either - they dig up and eat all my crocuses - 250 planted - SIX come up

*calms down*

I've also got blue tits, wood pigeons, field mice and voles, thrushes, blackbirds and the occasional butterfly. And a hummingbird moth once

Oh - and the entire North London population of snails and slugs

 

[lighterthief]

Lots of foxes around just now: they're refurbishing the lido where they used to live. Kind of but also

Woodpecker in London Fields. Keeps trying to drill into lamp posts

Shitloads of squirrels.

A whole rookery too: it's like Hitchcock's 'The Birds' sometimes.

 

[subversplat]

Watch out for wild boars in your garden. Vicious buggers apparently - they'll hunt you down and tear you apart!

 

[lighterthief]

Wild boars welcome at Lighterthief Mansions!

 

[ScallyWag II]

I'm not very keen on squirrels either - they dig up and eat all my crocuses - 250 planted - SIX come up

*calms down*

know the problrm but i think mine is self inflicted cos i keep the bird feeders so well stacked that the FAT (and they are chubby little things!) just know they can get a good nosh up in my garden...and they bury the bloody stuff where you've planred your spring bulbs!

but...i can't help myself...they are cute so i don't disuade them

 

[ScallyWag II]

Cool thread.

I would love to see foxes in the wild. I know they're about but I've never seen one round here. I have seen one in London though

We get quite a variety of wildlife here(rural NE Scotland)
A vast assortment of 'garden' birds and non garden birds like sparrowhawks, kestrels and buzzards, we had a visiting woodpecker for a few weeks this summer.
We usually get summer visits from hedgehogs too.

There's a few toads living in the ditch at the side of the house. They come up to the front doorstep on rainy nights, so I'm sometimes a bit concerned about them getting accidentally trodden on.

This summer we also had a visit from a red squirrel, which I missed , apparently our neighbours cat was most confused and wasn't sure whether to give chase or not.

I found a dead rat under the oak tree a few weeks ago It was in the traditional lying on its back legs in the air position!!

We've had deer looking over the fence, partridges and pheasants over the fence, and there was a rabbit one night this year too Soon chased that off.

Although the hares don't come into the garden we get to see them probably a lot more than most people.
Oh and bats fly round the street light in front of the house.

Think that about covers it.

cool thread indeed! being in an urban environment i don't see too much variety, but a fox is a regularish visitor, lots of birds...magpies & pigeons are the big ones but also get robins, starlings, blue tits, maybe a few other small ones. also have the geese migrating in the autumn which is a wonderful noise and very occasionanly a wonderful sight if the light's reflecting off them and it's a pinky sunset

have also seen rats, one alive on the bin in the church at the top of the road and a dead one on my neighbours doorstep..yuk

Other than that the amount of spiders, biting fecking insects, wasps, snails + slugs we get in this part of London is just a few too many (im biased o)

 

[ScallyWag II]

Cool thread.

I would love to see foxes in the wild. I know they're about but I've never seen one round here. I have seen one in London though

We get quite a variety of wildlife here(rural NE Scotland)
A vast assortment of 'garden' birds and non garden birds like sparrowhawks, kestrels and buzzards, we had a visiting woodpecker for a few weeks this summer.
We usually get summer visits from hedgehogs too.

There's a few toads living in the ditch at the side of the house. They come up to the front doorstep on rainy nights, so I'm sometimes a bit concerned about them getting accidentally trodden on.

This summer we also had a visit from a red squirrel, which I missed , apparently our neighbours cat was most confused and wasn't sure whether to give chase or not.

I found a dead rat under the oak tree a few weeks ago It was in the traditional lying on its back legs in the air position!!

We've had deer looking over the fence, partridges and pheasants over the fence, and there was a rabbit one night this year too Soon chased that off.

Although the hares don't come into the garden we get to see them probably a lot more than most people.
Oh and bats fly round the street light in front of the house.

Think that about covers it.

cool thread indeed! being in an urban environment i don't see too much variety, but a fox is a regularish visitor, lots of birds...magpies & pigeons are the big ones but also get robins, starlings, blue tits, maybe a few other small ones. also have the geese migrating in the autumn which is a wonderful noise and very occasionanly a wonderful sight if the light's reflecting off them and it's a pinky sunset

have also seen rats, one alive on the bin in the church at the top of the road and a dead one on my neighbours doorstep..yuk

Other than that the amount of spiders, biting fecking insects, wasps, snails + slugs we get in this part of London is just a few too many (im biased o)

oh! had a toad in the house once! didn't stay for too long though cos the cats started taking an unhealthy interest in it