To discover whether you have song thrushes in the area, sit out in your garden just before dusk and listen - as the other birds go quiet a song thrush will sing from a high vantage point http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2N9BN-mYrw
So easy to identify if you remember Robert Browning's poem, Home Thoughts from Abroad
" ... That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! ..."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh i see, the hole is made by hitting it on a stone! Mmm, not sure, all of these holes seem to be the same, surely some would be different? It would explain the clusters of shells i find tho
Do snails just come out of their shells then? For some reason i thought they were somehow attached
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To discover whether you have song thrushes in the area, sit out in your garden just before dusk and listen - as the other birds go quiet a song thrush will sing from a high vantage point http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2N9BN-mYrw
So easy to identify if you remember Robert Browning's poem, Home Thoughts from Abroad
" ... That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture! ..."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I did see a buzzard chased into trees by two brave crows yesterday, but i doubt its them making the holes!
Thrushes have quite big territories, so I'm sure that if they're in the next street they're probably visiting you.
Do snails just come out of their shells then? For some reason i thought they were somehow attached
They are till you bash them in a thrushy sort of way
I used to have a racing snail, but when I took its shell off it became a little sluggish!!!!
As many of you quote.....I'll get me coat!!