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Author Topic: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature  (Read 1150495 times)

Taz2

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5580 on: June 10, 2021, 10:59:32 AM »
Quote from: CLKD on June 10, 2021, 06:35:26 AM
;D. best place for a 🐿 - did it get out or did. U do the Big Rescue?  2 hedgehogs here at 10.45 p.m., eating the meal worms .  Do U have a night camera Joaniepat?

Please don't put mealworms out for the hedgehogs CLKD. I've just taken yet another hog to rescue with metabolic bone disease. So distressing. Kitten biscuits are great for them nutritionally if you do want to feed.

Currently watching the cat who's watching a rather large rat in the apple tree. Was rather hoping I'd imagined seeing it yesterday! My No Mow May/June jungle is great for the hedgies but also the rats sadly.

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CLKD

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5581 on: June 10, 2021, 08:31:54 PM »
Has this hog been X-rayed and a sample of gut contents removed 2 find out what it's been eating? 

« Last Edit: June 11, 2021, 07:48:23 AM by CLKD »
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5582 on: June 12, 2021, 10:36:45 AM »
Big heron caught on camera at about 4.30am never in the 6 years we've been here have I ever seen one in the garden,would it be ok? It was walking about alright,the Bowood lake which is a 20 minute walk from ours is usually where they are
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CLKD

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5583 on: June 12, 2021, 11:41:56 AM »
Yep.  They are out and about looking for grub to take to the nests!  They are HUGE close up, a few weeks ago we saw one on our patio, strolling around - it was on the night camera, around 4.50 a.m.  They can take off almost vertically  :o
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jaypo

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5584 on: June 12, 2021, 01:14:08 PM »
Phew,was hoping hadn't hurt itself and crash landed in our garden,yes,theyre big,it must've stood at about two and a half feet tall
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CLKD

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5585 on: June 12, 2021, 04:46:35 PM »
And the rest  ;D unless it's a juvinille ............ 4ft+ here.

A female blackbird took a chunk of feathers out of another female earlier  :o
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jaypo

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5586 on: June 12, 2021, 05:22:50 PM »
No need to brag just coz you've got bigger herons than me  ;D
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CLKD

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5587 on: June 12, 2021, 05:41:46 PM »
 :rofl:

blackbird is singing his socks off  :D
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CLKD

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5588 on: June 16, 2021, 11:24:32 AM »
Taz - any news on the hog that you took into care? 

I have sent e-mails to various places 2 find out if there is more reviewed research on this subject.  It might be better to buy earth worms which they would find as long as the ground is damp enough, currently we are putting the hose over parts of the garden so that birds etc. can forage.  They wouldn't get cat biscuits in the 'wild' which are very dry.  Plenty of water saucers around our plot :-)

5 male blackbirds in our garden this morning  8)
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5589 on: June 21, 2021, 09:34:48 PM »
A lovely young blackbird hit the patio doors today. He lay on a pot of daisies for ten minutes,then he was well enough to fly off again. 
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CLKD

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5590 on: June 22, 2021, 08:24:32 AM »
Aren't they silly!  Despite putting deterrents on the glass we still get it happening.  Most recover, probably fly off feeling a bit silly  ::)
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jaypo

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5591 on: June 22, 2021, 01:33:12 PM »
We used to put these long silver swirly things on our windows at the lodge and they definitely helped with the birds
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CLKD

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5592 on: June 22, 2021, 01:46:22 PM »
?? drives everything else  :madeyes: though  ??

I have rehung our nut and seed feeders about an hour ago, had to take them all in weeks ago due to 🐀 ++.  Sparrows there already :-))). 

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5593 on: June 24, 2021, 01:08:47 PM »
4 young blue tits being fed from the feeders which I re-hung yesterday.  Parent taking either small pieces of nut or sun flower heart and feeding to each one in turn.  Probably by 2morrow the young will be fending 4 themselves  8)
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5594 on: July 13, 2021, 05:38:58 PM »
Beaver kit born on Holnicote Estate, Exmoor. First in 400 years. Video on YouTube. High aahhh factor. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=38ErXjO1NmE

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