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What do you find weird in your garden?

CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
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This assumedly puffball fungus popped up and surprised me growing near our old apple tree recently.  I've had to mow (and walk) around it! 😁 I've included a clog (UK womens size 6, US 39?) for reference in the photographic evidence.   

What have you found in your garden that you would class as weird?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2020
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @pansyface - do you think they mistook them for eggs?
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    We had a magpie family decorating my seedlings with little stones (and cigarette butts, left by the builders...) earlier in the year.  I think the juvenile birds get bored...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    We were at my mum's house and watched from the window for about 20 minutes while four magpies performed an elaborate dance around the pieris in the middle of the lawn.  They were hopping and strutting in circles, ducking in and out of the circle like tag wrestlers, picking up, carrying and dropping leaves - they were very creative, devising so many different movements.  Wish we'd had a camcorder.

    This week there's been a nocturnal visitor to the ground feeder.  It's a mesh tray, filled with seed mix and suet nibbles, and covered with a square cage which excludes anything bigger than a blackbird.  Four turds have been deposited, inside the cage, outside the tray, one on each side.  They are about the size of the top joint of my thumb.  What could be big enough to produce the turds, yet small enough to get through the mesh of the cage?  and why are they so neatly distributed?  Maybe there were four visitors.

    It's just occurred to me that it, or they, needn't have been inside the cage.  They could have sat on top and pooped through the mesh, perhaps in spite because they couldn't get at the food.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    US size 39 = 16.5”. Wow, some puffball 😉
    Rutland, England
  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
    Sorry US 8 EUR 39 doh!  That would have been REALLY weird! It's 8" x 8" and 6 .5" high but I don't think it's done yet.
  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    Sometimes I get "earth star" fungi under the hedge. I had never heard of them before so they looked rather strange at first, especially when they appear to pull themselves up. 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    josusa47 said:
    What could be big enough to produce the turds, yet small enough to get through the mesh of the cage?  and why are they so neatly distributed?  Maybe there were four visitors.
    Turds or pellets? Most birds regurgitate pellets of some kind made up of the indigestible parts of their food such as seed husks and insect shells. Your size description could be about right for a corvid pellet or maybe even a blackbird.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Small -ish hedgehogs?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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