In your garden, what have you got?
My neighbours and I have put effort into getting hedgehogs to move in and so far it is working.
I've still got the back doors open and I've just heard an owl.
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Just moved house, so nothing at the moment, but we used to have so many birds in the garden due to our feeders. Loads of finches, tits, sparrows, wrens, blackbirds, siskins, pigeons, jackdaws, starlings... just constant activity. The sparrowhawks occasionally turned up, too.
Terrestrial life was limited to hedgehogs, moles, mice and slow worms |
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over a year ago
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"Foxes!!
An owl? Lovely
Twit twoooooo
It takes two owls for a twit twooooo. One on it's own will twit. The second one responds twooooo. I love me a owl."
I'll be the twit, will you be my twoooooo?  |
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"Foxes!!
An owl? Lovely
Twit twoooooo
It takes two owls for a twit twooooo. One on it's own will twit. The second one responds twooooo. I love me a owl.
I'll be the twit, will you be my twoooooo? "
Can I twatch?  |
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I only have a small back yard but I have a bird feeding station in it that attracts robins, chaffinches, blue coal and great tits as well as dunnocks and wrens .. I love to watch them come and go through my kitchen window |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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"Foxes!!
An owl? Lovely
Twit twoooooo
It takes two owls for a twit twooooo. One on it's own will twit. The second one responds twooooo. I love me a owl.
I'll be the twit, will you be my twoooooo? "
Damn straight. Next time I'm in that there London. |
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"Just moved house, so nothing at the moment, but we used to have so many birds in the garden due to our feeders. Loads of finches, tits, sparrows, wrens, blackbirds, siskins, pigeons, jackdaws, starlings... just constant activity. The sparrowhawks occasionally turned up, too.
Terrestrial life was limited to hedgehogs, moles, mice and slow worms "
That's a lovely mixture of birds
Good about Hedgehogs, they are an endangered species now  |
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A hedgehog, who nested in my garden behind the shed, but that's about it. Birds I just seem to get a couple of jack daws, really friendly ones who come sit on the fence while I'm in the garden. |
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"Foxes!!
An owl? Lovely
Twit twoooooo
I like foxes, they are so cute. I realise they are naughty and kill chickens etc. but they are adorable in their own right "
Often come home and one of them is sitting on my doorstep!! |
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"I only have a small back yard but I have a bird feeding station in it that attracts robins, chaffinches, blue coal and great tits as well as dunnocks and wrens .. I love to watch them come and go through my kitchen window "
That's a fine collection of pretty little birds |
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Today I've been somewhere that lets you watch red kites feeding and the other day I was watching an osprey tucking into its catch on its nest... I love wildlife |
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"I've got far less wildlife in the garden than i used to have.
The bloody cat just figured out how to hunt and is decimating the bird population
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Bells on its collar helps, need 2 or they soon learn to move without jingling. |
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We're I live, just out side of cardiff...I have a hedgehog, bats, an owl some where, and the dogs.
Where I used to live you'd get bears, wolves, elk, big horn sheep and the occasional mountain lion.
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"Just moved house, so nothing at the moment, but we used to have so many birds in the garden due to our feeders. Loads of finches, tits, sparrows, wrens, blackbirds, siskins, pigeons, jackdaws, starlings... just constant activity. The sparrowhawks occasionally turned up, too.
Terrestrial life was limited to hedgehogs, moles, mice and slow worms
That's a lovely mixture of birds
Good about Hedgehogs, they are an endangered species now "
Are they really? That's sad to read |
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"A hedgehog, who nested in my garden behind the shed, but that's about it. Birds I just seem to get a couple of jack daws, really friendly ones who come sit on the fence while I'm in the garden."
Look after the hedgehog |
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"I like foxes, they are so cute. I realise they are naughty and kill chickens etc. but they are adorable in their own right
Often come home and one of them is sitting on my doorstep!! "
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"Today I've been somewhere that lets you watch red kites feeding and the other day I was watching an osprey tucking into its catch on its nest... I love wildlife "
Sounds brilliant, wildlife is amazing. All those animals looking ofter themselves |
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"We're I live, just out side of cardiff...I have a hedgehog, bats, an owl some where, and the dogs.
Where I used to live you'd get bears, wolves, elk, big horn sheep and the occasional mountain lion.
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I'm jealous. Though I probably did when I lived there |
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By *P1964Woman
over a year ago
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"In your garden, what have you got?
My neighbours and I have put effort into getting hedgehogs to move in and so far it is working.
I've still got the back doors open and I've just heard an owl.
It's made me feel extra happy "
I've joined a group online called hedgehog street to encourage them into our gardens as they are dying out |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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We are lucky enough to back directly onto farmland & the garden is next to the house not behind it so 15ft from the back door are the fields, first thing I did when I moved in was take the fence down.
I walk the dog at dusk with bats flying around us, sometimes go for dark walks & hear owls & today had the welcome return of a few soaring buzzards, rabbits are everywhere too. Beats living in Brixton which is where i'm from
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"Good about Hedgehogs, they are an endangered species now
Are they really? That's sad to read "
Yes it's true sadly. Part of the problem is garden fences. Hedgehogs have a nightly round of feeding spots. Fences stop them getting to food |
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"We are lucky enough to back directly onto farmland & the garden is next to the house not behind it so 15ft from the back door are the fields, first thing I did when I moved in was take the fence down.
I walk the dog at dusk with bats flying around us, sometimes go for dark walks & hear owls & today had the welcome return of a few soaring buzzards, rabbits are everywhere too. Beats living in Brixton which is where i'm from
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Sounds perfect |
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"A hedgehog, who nested in my garden behind the shed, but that's about it. Birds I just seem to get a couple of jack daws, really friendly ones who come sit on the fence while I'm in the garden.
Look after the hedgehog "
Oh I do! fresh water daily, through September there will be cat biscuits down too to make sure she's in good form to hybernate. I hand reared a baby I found 4 yrs ago, he still visits my mum's garden where I was living at the time.x |
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"Look after the hedgehog
Oh I do! fresh water daily, through September there will be cat biscuits down too to make sure she's in good form to hybernate. I hand reared a baby I found 4 yrs ago, he still visits my mum's garden where I was living at the time.x"
That's lovely news |
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My garden's full of pidgeys and rattan ... at least that's what the kids tell me 
I've got a varied collection of birds, from tits to woodpeckers and even a buzzard 
I plant for wildlife, so have a lot of insects, 3 different kinds of bumble bees, plenty of butterflies and even dragonflies
Plus the tortoise stomping around |
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"My garden's full of pidgeys and rattan ... at least that's what the kids tell me
I've got a varied collection of birds, from tits to woodpeckers and even a buzzard
I plant for wildlife, so have a lot of insects, 3 different kinds of bumble bees, plenty of butterflies and even dragonflies
Plus the tortoise stomping around "
I've got bees and butterflies too, I've seen dragonflies as well
Does the tortoise come in for the winter? |
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A jolly splendid mix of wildlife in my garden.
Bees , butterflies, newts , frogs toads, Mr fox , heaps of bunnies , woodpeckers , pheasant's and a mix of wild birds. The well stocked bird feeders help.
Oh and Pooch |
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"My garden's full of pidgeys and rattan ... at least that's what the kids tell me
I've got a varied collection of birds, from tits to woodpeckers and even a buzzard
I plant for wildlife, so have a lot of insects, 3 different kinds of bumble bees, plenty of butterflies and even dragonflies
Plus the tortoise stomping around
I've got bees and butterflies too, I've seen dragonflies as well
Does the tortoise come in for the winter?"
She hibernates in the cellar, when she's not running off |
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"My garden's full of pidgeys and rattan ... at least that's what the kids tell me
I've got a varied collection of birds, from tits to woodpeckers and even a buzzard
I plant for wildlife, so have a lot of insects, 3 different kinds of bumble bees, plenty of butterflies and even dragonflies
Plus the tortoise stomping around "
Rattan furniture or rattata Pokémon? |
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"A jolly splendid mix of wildlife in my garden.
Bees , butterflies, newts , frogs toads, Mr fox , heaps of bunnies , woodpeckers , pheasant's and a mix of wild birds. The well stocked bird feeders help.
Oh and Pooch "
Should have guessed you'd have a lovely garden |
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"Just moved house, so nothing at the moment, but we used to have so many birds in the garden due to our feeders. Loads of finches, tits, sparrows, wrens, blackbirds, siskins, pigeons, jackdaws, starlings... just constant activity. The sparrowhawks occasionally turned up, too.
Terrestrial life was limited to hedgehogs, moles, mice and slow worms "
slow worms lucky to have them have only ever seen one in the cheddar gorge. |
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"I like foxes, they are so cute. I realise they are naughty and kill chickens etc. but they are adorable in their own right
Often come home and one of them is sitting on my doorstep!!
I'd want to tame it "
I've had a stroke a couple of times. He's quite friendly. |
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I have a little hedgehog =) saw him tonight. My boyfriend has an owl, from it's hoot I think it's a male tawny owl. Gotta love our wonderful wildlife! =D xx |
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"Foxes!!
An owl? Lovely
Twit twoooooo
It takes two owls for a twit twooooo. One on it's own will twit. The second one responds twooooo. I love me a owl."
Damn, you beat me to it, not many women have done that!  |
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"I've got far less wildlife in the garden than i used to have.
The bloody cat just figured out how to hunt and is decimating the bird population
Ah, not good. Does it wear a bell on it's collar?"
I tried a collar a few times, he gets them off in seconds and fights like hell if i try to put one on now |
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We have the best wildlife in Scotland. Owls, many song birds too. When l visit down souht l miss the song birds.
l even see deer out side my window sometimes and l live in the city. He's a young buck. l love how much distance he covers when he takes a stride. |
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My cat, A couple of other rival cats, a squirrel, magpies pidgeons, foxes, snails and the odd hedgehog.
Practially the Serengeti in my back garden. All I'm missing is Attenborough's narrative. |
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Where I used to live, regularly had deers in the garden you could hear the stags rutting and sit and watch them. Would get foxes, was nice watching them playing and chasing each other round.
Loads of different birds, the woodpeckers were always fun to watch, the squirrel was pretty awesome. There was always baby rabbits in the oak tree |
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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago
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With three cats, one of whom is a psycho killer, "live" wildlife in our garden is pretty limited apart from the occasional frog and very brave bird. We do however live on the edge of a wood and farmland so get plenty of night time noise from foxes, owls and the like. In fact am sitting here now listening to an owl calling.
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"Where I used to live, regularly had deers in the garden you could hear the stags rutting and sit and watch them. Would get foxes, was nice watching them playing and chasing each other round.
Loads of different birds, the woodpeckers were always fun to watch, the squirrel was pretty awesome. There was always baby rabbits in the oak tree"
yes we had a green woodpecker in the trees yesterday calling thou they don,t hang around here much before moveing on. |
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Nothing but bloody starlings even though I've put fat balls, Niger seeds, mealworms, suet blocks all over the garden including nesting boxes with small diameter openings, spent a small fortune! |
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lucky in where we live, surrounded by woodland so owls, a huge variety of small birdlife, rabbits, rodents etc...have a common lizard that likes to bask on the patio,wood pigeons that like to crap on the cars, and right now I,m watching the heron fly down the valley towards the canal!! |
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"Nothing but bloody starlings even though I've put fat balls, Niger seeds, mealworms, suet blocks all over the garden including nesting boxes with small diameter openings, spent a small fortune!"
you don,t need all that amount of food out stick with just one and one nest box a bit of cover helps around the box to give it a year or two and it might surprise you.
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"Red squirrels
Rabbits
Moles
Occasional fox
Visiting roe deer
Voles
Moles
Bats
Owls
Jays
Blackbirds
Swifts
Thrushes
Numerous finches
Hoopoes
Nightingales
Lizards
Various snakes
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Hoopoe and Nightingales lizards and various snakes quite a selection there hoopoe is a non breeder in the uk may have been in the past I think just a visitor now.. |
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Slugs
Spiders
Bees
Wasps
Ladybirds
Dont see birds as the houses either way both have cats that scare them away so never see birds unless they are being eaten
Oh oh a mouse ..
But that was being chased also by a cat |
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" hoopoe is a non breeder in the uk may have been in the past I think just a visitor now.. "
Yes, we have regular breeding hoopies here. Only ever saw one once in the UK.
We have Golden Orioles here quite often, too. |
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Hedgehog that visits each evening. Had foxes but did not encourage them. A local cat. Regarding garden birds. I have a few niger seed feeders up and get daily visits from Goldfinches, Chaffinches and Greenfinches. Bird table gets Blue tits, robins, blackbirds, sparrows. Have a tame blackbird that visits daily for her sultanas. |
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By *al2001Man
over a year ago
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A pair of golden eagles are nesting near my house. See them everyday. They were part of a breeding programme few years ago that was released and can gladly report they had a chick 3 years ago and he's still around too.
Iv seen a pine martin in my garden. They are rare here |
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"We have the best wildlife in Scotland. Owls, many song birds too. When l visit down souht l miss the song birds.
l even see deer out side my window sometimes and l live in the city. He's a young buck. l love how much distance he covers when he takes a stride."
You do have some amazing creatures up there. I was thrilled to see a red squirrel last time |
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"Hedgehog that visits each evening. Had foxes but did not encourage them. A local cat. Regarding garden birds. I have a few niger seed feeders up and get daily visits from Goldfinches, Chaffinches and Greenfinches. Bird table gets Blue tits, robins, blackbirds, sparrows. Have a tame blackbird that visits daily for her sultanas."
Awww at the sultanas |
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"A pair of golden eagles are nesting near my house. See them everyday. They were part of a breeding programme few years ago that was released and can gladly report they had a chick 3 years ago and he's still around too.
Iv seen a pine martin in my garden. They are rare here"
Impressive |
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I live in Devon...... My garden backs onto miles and miles of fields; I swear I saw a giraffe out there one day
(to be fair, I had just woken up in the kitchen with an empty lion bar wrapper stuck to my head, surrounded by empty wine bottles and a cat pointing at the wall clock) |
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We get frogs and toads moving through our garden to the neighbours pond, hedgehogs hide in our woodpile and keep our herb garden free of slugs. Pretty sure we have some mice hiding between our and the neighbours fencing panels.
We live in an suburban area between a park and some sheep fields nearby, so we occasionally get treated to a fox passing through, or owls in an evening.
Plenty of bats when the weather is warm, and we often get red kites and sparrow hawks flying overhead/resting on our house/garage.
Not bad for a suburb of Leeds. |
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"I live in Devon...... My garden backs onto miles and miles of fields; I swear I saw a giraffe out there one day
(to be fair, I had just woken up in the kitchen with an empty lion bar wrapper stuck to my head, surrounded by empty wine bottles and a cat pointing at the wall clock)"
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"We get frogs and toads moving through our garden to the neighbours pond, hedgehogs hide in our woodpile and keep our herb garden free of slugs. Pretty sure we have some mice hiding between our and the neighbours fencing panels.
We live in an suburban area between a park and some sheep fields nearby, so we occasionally get treated to a fox passing through, or owls in an evening.
Plenty of bats when the weather is warm, and we often get red kites and sparrow hawks flying overhead/resting on our house/garage.
Not bad for a suburb of Leeds. "
That is impressive. Though I've seen more foxes on pavements than in fields. |
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"I only have a small back yard but I have a bird feeding station in it that attracts robins, chaffinches, blue coal and great tits as well as dunnocks and wrens .. I love to watch them come and go through my kitchen window "
Yes, you do have some great tits. Had to say it with your post, sorry |
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I forgot the tree frogs ;
April/ may they are in the local streams and ponds; deafening racket all night.
Plus toads living in my log piles .
We have wild boar in the fields, but never seen one in the garden.
Also Fouines ( French for beech martens or stone martens ) see them in the trees; they sometimes get into house lofts and eat the wiring or the insulation . |
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"I forgot the tree frogs ;
April/ may they are in the local streams and ponds; deafening racket all night.
Plus toads living in my log piles .
We have wild boar in the fields, but never seen one in the garden.
Also Fouines ( French for beech martens or stone martens ) see them in the trees; they sometimes get into house lofts and eat the wiring or the insulation ."
I had martens in the attic when I staying in a villa in the south. I never saw one but wanted to |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
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Loads of it.
Deer come through, Ive seen the odd badger. I know s' about because the dogs have been on at him, squirrels. All manner of birds - I have a wren lives in the tree opposite my dining table who I see fairly often. My pond has damselflies, dragonflies and palmate newts, there's at least two wood ant nests around...... |
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