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Should I Give Up Reading The Paper After Lunch?
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Sitting quietly in the conservatory after sandwich lunch yesterday I got joined by 6 bullocks that has broken through a hedge.
Got me thinking of other creatures that have joined me when I sit quietly, not including rooks, gulls, wood pigeons, green woodpecker and other various birds but badgers, sheep, a squirrel, various farm cats, piglets, chickens.
Now at least the grass at the side of the house is manured and managed to keep them (cattle) out of patio area where the pond is.
Do any of you have slightly unwelcome visitors?
Got me thinking of other creatures that have joined me when I sit quietly, not including rooks, gulls, wood pigeons, green woodpecker and other various birds but badgers, sheep, a squirrel, various farm cats, piglets, chickens.
Now at least the grass at the side of the house is manured and managed to keep them (cattle) out of patio area where the pond is.
Do any of you have slightly unwelcome visitors?
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I've grown a thick high mixed hedge at the back of my garden for birds. There are now several nests in there (tits, goldfinches, sparrows, and starlings as far as I can determine).
A couple of weeks ago, a little sparrow flew into the hedge but was closely followed by two magpies (obviously had been watching him) who flew out again almost immediately, presumably having stolen/eaten baby birds (or eggs).
Most unwelcome, but nature's red in tooth and claw .
The magpie's nest is in an enormous tree the other side of the road, from which they can view all the surrounding gardens etc.
A couple of weeks ago, a little sparrow flew into the hedge but was closely followed by two magpies (obviously had been watching him) who flew out again almost immediately, presumably having stolen/eaten baby birds (or eggs).
Most unwelcome, but nature's red in tooth and claw .
The magpie's nest is in an enormous tree the other side of the road, from which they can view all the surrounding gardens etc.
This Cornish photographer welcomes badgers...
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That Cornish photographer probably hasn't had his foundations destabalised by badgers, his sewer pipes and drains badly damaged nor his garden totally wrecked.
It has cost me a lot of money to (hopefully) badger proof my garden since the council allowed building on a nearby field, disrupting their setts.
It has cost me a lot of money to (hopefully) badger proof my garden since the council allowed building on a nearby field, disrupting their setts.
Gness - lol. That could be the worst. So glad I don't have any.
Veg plot wreaked and fruit cage (netting and fruit bushes) wreaked by badgers. Large holes filled with badger poo in various bits of garden. I wish the badgers and their sett would go elsewhere. I feel the same about squirrels. The rabbits and foxes I can just about cope with.
Veg plot wreaked and fruit cage (netting and fruit bushes) wreaked by badgers. Large holes filled with badger poo in various bits of garden. I wish the badgers and their sett would go elsewhere. I feel the same about squirrels. The rabbits and foxes I can just about cope with.
Mallards in the lounge watching TV, Moorhens on the balcony knocking on the window and a Heron who frightened the wits out of me as he was perched on the balcony railing as I went out at dusk to bring in some washing.
Once had a bat fly in, that was a palaver then the following week a squirrel ran in and did a lap of the room on the wall, so quick. Then he legged it.
Once had a bat fly in, that was a palaver then the following week a squirrel ran in and did a lap of the room on the wall, so quick. Then he legged it.
Bats are fun - it reminds me
Chronicled on the 14th Nov. 2018....
"Morning from here.
Woken to the most incredible knocking sound just on midnight, an echoing coming from the wall that joins the kitchen on to the main part of the house, my room is above the kitchen - there's an old chimney in the wall there.
Thought it was the mater up and scratching the walls as she has been wont to do. Dressed and downstairs and it was above me as I came through the door. The mater was well-asleep though.
Other than the old man or someone from the graveyard next door visiting, (the wall is just about dead on the lay-line) I can only put it down to a rat or squirrel caught in there - it went quiet after I was up and stayed that way."
In retrospect, it was a bat in there - it probably moved up the chimney on sensing me below - and with that picked up the fresh air and was gone.
So no thanks to bats please..... my daughter is nuts about them and this pic is from Austin in Texas when up to 2 million come out! https:/
Chronicled on the 14th Nov. 2018....
"Morning from here.
Woken to the most incredible knocking sound just on midnight, an echoing coming from the wall that joins the kitchen on to the main part of the house, my room is above the kitchen - there's an old chimney in the wall there.
Thought it was the mater up and scratching the walls as she has been wont to do. Dressed and downstairs and it was above me as I came through the door. The mater was well-asleep though.
Other than the old man or someone from the graveyard next door visiting, (the wall is just about dead on the lay-line) I can only put it down to a rat or squirrel caught in there - it went quiet after I was up and stayed that way."
In retrospect, it was a bat in there - it probably moved up the chimney on sensing me below - and with that picked up the fresh air and was gone.
So no thanks to bats please..... my daughter is nuts about them and this pic is from Austin in Texas when up to 2 million come out! https:/
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