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[CLKD]

I watched 3 herons fly over at 9.30 p.m. I could hear them too.  Off to feed the 'hogs.

[dulciana]

A huge rook landed on the fatball feeder and it broke - the feeder not the rook!  I have never seen one so close up before, absolutely massive it was 

My grandfather used to tell us about one of his classmates in primary school, who had been misbehaving and was made to stand on a chair and say, "Please Sir, I am a rook"..........silly but true!   

[Hurdity]

Lots of skylarks singing while we were away - also wheatears, stonechats, blackcaps and whitethroats - lovely to hear some of them in full song and also to see the wheatears as they flashed by!

Hurdity x

[Elizabethrose]

We have an ongoing battle with the billions of squirrels around here but they have amazed me this morning.

Firstly they managed to remove special dustbin clips securing lids to our bins containing our bird seed supplies. We then found a super secure device which they bypassed by biting through the very strong plastic of the bin once again gaining access to the seed. We then moved the bins into a shed. Last week I left the shed door open whilst mowing the lawn and found the little blighters inside the shed inside the bin when I returned to the shed. This morning I discovered that they are literally trying to eat their way into the shed. They've chewed all along the shed door and also along the window ledges. What's amazing is that they must have been clinging onto the vertical surfaces with their claws as there is nowhere to hang from, no ledges etc. As I was at the door exclaiming(!) there was a family of six sitting on the other shed watching me! It was like The Birds!! 

The woodpeckers are having a field day today as the ants are on the move!

[Elizabethrose]

One of my daughter's friends had a cat that was ferocious! It used to catch squirrels and bring them into the house.......alive! The things would go absolutely berserk, flying around the house. So scary!! 

[Two hoots]

Elizabethrose, my squirrels know how to get my attention 

[Elizabethrose]

Haha, you must live next door to me! I went out this evening and actually caught one of the little rascals (a baby one) doing a spiderman impersonation. It back flipped when I yelled at the thing. I've just rubbed a raw chilli into all the fresh gnawed wood and am hoping it might deter them. Who am I kidding!!!! x

[CLKD]

I have an air rifle: tree rats  ......... if they get into the loft and chew wiring there could be a fire!!!

[Mbrown001]

Pests but very cute pests.

I love watching them.

When the kids were young we used to string  monkey nuts that were left over from Haloween. I saw one of the squirrels running down the drive with a string over each arm. Priceless really.

My favourites are the little red ones. I'm hoping to see some when we head north soon. Plenty of them around.

Mrs Brown

[Elizabethrose]

We have a couple of Flutter Butter pots that I force into the rings at the top of the feeders. Last week the squirrels somehow managed to unscrew the jars from the supports (and that is no easy task) and I actually saw a squirrel running up the garden holding a pot of Flutter Butter with one leg whilst running on the other three!

I too find them cute Mrs B and amazingly resourceful but they are my nemeses! x

[dahliagirl]

Hi

I have seen a Puffin go down its hole!!!!!   At last!!!!!!!

I am so pleased.  I have been watching this on and off for days, but the 6hr rewind does not work so you have to catch it in the act.  I saw it at about 1.30pm on the first day and 5.30pm today.  Its little tail-end vanished down the hole, then it came back up again and flew off.

Just needed to share 

http://www.shetland.org/60n/webcams/puffincam-1

[CLKD]

  I love  puffins!

Grey squirrels are killing our native reds  ....... when I was a kid there were lots in Thetford Chase and around Sandringham, now there aren't any .......... we used to get 2/6 for a grey squirrel tail. 

[dahliagirl]

Puffins are great    I haven't seen it today though.

I watched a beautiful red squirrel up a tree in Witherslack woods, on the southern border of the Lake District National Park, early 1980s.  It was sleek and shiny like a cat, and had wonderful tufts.  It was about 4ft above me on a branch.  We watched each other for a while, then it went.

[CLKD]

A memory to cherish.

[CLKD]

A male blackbird hopped around my husband's feet earlier - think it was a hint so I trotted out with live meals worms