Absolutely amazing to hear of all the wonderful wildlife and see some exceptionally cute photos. Popped my camera over my swallows nest today and it appears all 5 eggs have hatched and are being fed. Both parents feeding regularly ?
came out this morning to see two baby blackbirds and their mum up on the wall top, went in to get them some sultanas and they had gone, then was pottering in the garden and out pops one of the youngsters, she jumped up into the rhubarb pot, so i went in to get a teatowel to move it up into the bushes at the top of the wall,because i have a terrier and he likes to catch anything that moves in the animal world, when i returned after searching behind those pots i couldn't find it. This afternoon she popped out again and i fed her some sultanas and discovered she has been hiding in, i have a fireplace in the garden made out of old bricks and on the side of it is a terracotta chimney pot built into the side of the fire and she has been hiding there, so i have put some straw in it in case she comes back later, i have harvest mice that freely use the bird feeders, blue tits, sparrows, starlings, blackbirds ring neck doves, did have a frog but the dog killed it , visiting magpies that have appeared this year, i love the birds singing and the little mice especially
There are some great ideas there Hopeful, we have 70% of them in our garden. Corrugated iron - we used to have some lying around but I think it is all been cleared away now - pity, but old bits of wood will have to do instead.
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30+ types of bird, squirrels, hedgehogs, common newt, butterflies, dragonflies, bees (lots), frogs, and we also have halfling frog tadpoles
Love the deer Steephill, beautiful.
A resident frog under the decking, hedgehogs, sparrows, robins, black birds, woodland pigeons, crows, magpies, a field mouse, fox
Absolutely amazing to hear of all the wonderful wildlife and see some exceptionally cute photos. Popped my camera over my swallows nest today and it appears all 5 eggs have hatched and are being fed. Both parents feeding regularly ?
came out this morning to see two baby blackbirds and their mum up on the wall top, went in to get them some sultanas and they had gone, then was pottering in the garden and out pops one of the youngsters, she jumped up into the rhubarb pot, so i went in to get a teatowel to move it up into the bushes at the top of the wall,because i have a terrier and he likes to catch anything that moves in the animal world, when i returned after searching behind those pots i couldn't find it. This afternoon she popped out again and i fed her some sultanas and discovered she has been hiding in, i have a fireplace in the garden made out of old bricks and on the side of it is a terracotta chimney pot built into the side of the fire and she has been hiding there, so i have put some straw in it in case she comes back later, i have harvest mice that freely use the bird feeders, blue tits, sparrows, starlings, blackbirds ring neck doves, did have a frog but the dog killed it
, visiting magpies that have appeared this year, i love the birds singing and the little mice especially
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The 'wildlife area' of my garden....
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Suggestions for wildlife-friendly garden:
Log pile
Open compost heap
Insect hotel
Bog garden
Pond
Rockery
Lots of ivy
Area with long grass / overgrown
A sheet of corrugated metal (lying on ground in direct sunlight)
Lots of different 'micro-environments'
There are some great ideas there Hopeful, we have 70% of them in our garden. Corrugated iron - we used to have some lying around but I think it is all been cleared away now - pity, but old bits of wood will have to do instead.