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[Taz2]

.... and if you have every heard strange sounds in the garden at night and wondered what they were have a listen to the various hedgehogs calls http://www.hedgehog-rescue.org.uk/sounds/noises.php   The distressed/scared one does sound just like a duck quacking!

Taz x

[CLKD]

I have spent an hour taking down a montana clematis which has ramped it's way across the garden, smoothering everything in it's path  so it's got to come OUT!  I've found a rose struggling underneath it  that I thought had died ...........

The wasps are busy in the jam jars and taking it back to their nest above ........... busy, busy, busy

[Sleepless in London]

I always thought foxes and cats didn't get along.  There's a cat lives opposite which usually sleeps in the middle of the pavement in the afternoons.  It was doing just that the other day when a fox appeared from the garden, sniffed round the cat (which didn't move), fox walked off, cat went back to sleep. 

[CLKD]

It's the urban fox, more used to cats and vice versa - did you get a photo?  Was it your cat?

I ache - comfortably - after hours and hours in the sun removing a clematis, finding 3 adult lavender plants that required setting, pulling out a creeping plant ...........

[CLKD]

I can't believe that it is SEPTEMBER already.    

[Taz2]

I can 

Taz 

[CLKD]

I knew YOU would    ........... it's lights on at 8.00 p.m. 

[Eddie]

Bit later up here still, but i do enjoy the darker nights of September, love getting the firepit lit and being able to use my garden lifgts whilst there is still enough warmth. Good combination. Eddie. x

[one year in]

Saw the first Shrikes (on their migration path) here this morning.  Autumn must be on its way!  The appearance of visitor species of birds always heralds change and it makes me feel strangely happy.

[sandie w]

Can anyone tell me do starlings go anywhere for the winter...i have loads that come into my garden and the poor little sparrows don't get a look in.

TM

[Taz2]

The Starling population will probably increase this month as Scandanavian birds tend to winter here. You might find this info interesting http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/expert/previous/starlingmigration.aspx

What are you feeding for the Sparrows?

Taz x

[sandie w]

Thanks Taz,

The sparrows have seed in their feeders, (even though they throw most of it on the ground and fat balls. The starlings go mad over the fat balls and sparrows hardly get a look in. I also cut up bread into tiny tiny squares and once again the starlings suddenly decend  but the sparrows have hardly any chance to eat the little pieces of bread, the starlings eat it all.

TM

[Taz2]

Sparrows are much better on just seed TM. Cake is good if you can spare some but bread, especially white bread, only fills them up but doesn't give them any nutrition. Crumbled digestive biscuits are good for both but you will probably find, if they are anything like my lot, that the starlings descend and eat really quickly but, due to their habits, lots of the food tumbles off the birdtable and onto the ground where the sparrows happily hop around and eat it up.

I feed my birds a breakfast of brown breadcrumbs, grated cheese, sultanas (soaked overnight in water), biscuit crumbs and any table scraps I have left over plus shredded suet if I have any. The robins love the cheese and the blackbirds love the sultanas but wont come to the bird table - I sprinkle theirs on the ground.

Taz x

[CLKD]

I have hung out a large seed feeder, a smaller one of black sunflower seeds and 2 with niger seed - the only visitor has been the grey squirrel who will get a wellie up his tail if he doesn't scedaddle  - I watched one this morning running away with half a cabbage in his gob  .......... and we thought it was slugs taking them 

[sandie w]

Thanks Taz for that info,

I do give them cake....and sometimes grated cheese will get some sultanas and try them too. Blackbirds come now and again and so does my little robin.

will give it a try

TM x x