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[lady57]

sorry, my husband thinks if we put the feeders in or near the trees the squirrels will chew the 'squirrel proof' feeders (he's a man!  )

[Taz2]

Well... what's to stop the squirrels chewing them where they are - have you asked him that? 

[honeybun]

Mt squirrel has a lovely feeder all of his/her own. I bought a new nut feeder and the squirrel thinks those nuts taste better and had such fun hanging upside down trying to get at the nuts.

He has the same nuts in his feeder but obviously enjoys a challenge.

We had a male pheasant in the garden this week who enjoyed the seed I threw out for him. We stay next to a country estate and he is an escapee from the pheasant pens. We get more of them in the winter......lovely birds.

Honeyb
x

[Taz2]

I reckon they have all been released from the pens by now Honeyb - season starts on 1st October (I think) so hope he is good at staying undercover! 

Taz x

[honeybun]

Yep they have had a few shoots already....hate the sound of the guns. We get a lot of pheasants around here and if you feed them they stay around and become very tame.

I do wish they would stay off the main roads though. I have hit them on more than one occasion and I hate doing that.

I think OH looks at my pheasants and thinks of dinner. He would not dare. If we have them around long enough then they end up with names       Daft or what.

Honeyb
x

[Taz2]

I know what you mean - they are lovely but very thick! I mean the way they run across the road when they can, with a little bit of flapping, fly! I hate the way they run into the road and you swerve a little to avoid them and they run back right under your wheels.

Taz x

[CLKD]

I see pheasants with peas, gravey and mashed spuds around them 

[Taz2]

I like them cooked but I prefer watching them and their silly antics in the garden - well in our last garden anyway.

Taz x

[oldsheep]

Just signed Brian May's e-petition against the badger cull. Not sure if I'm allowed to post the link?

[Taz2]

Me too. http://www.league.org.uk/content/643/Badger-Cull?gclid=CJChmpeS3bICFVMbtAodqVcADQ

Taz x

[limpy]

Thanks Taz, really useful link.

I don't think the badger cull will help anything. There is bovine TB in New Zealand, where there are NO badgers. 

[Taz2]

Unfortunately bovine TB is spread by possums in New Zealand Limpy - one of my best friends lives there. http://www.bovinetb.info/newzealand.php

Taz x

[limpy]

Taz. I had heard that, we used to live in NZ, had actually emigrated there, but decided we liked North Wales (Snowdonia ish) better!.   

While we were there a neighbour, who was a doctor,  was of the opinion that possum TB, was a different species to bovine TB, and couldn't be spread by possums. Who can tell?

I think there has been some work to indicate that TB can survive in soil, and wouldn't  need animals to pass it on.

However, with weather like this, NZ is looking more appealing 

[Greyhoundgal]

I found my birds!  They weren't woodpeckers at all but Hoopoe birds....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pyogenes_gruffer/6171776813/

[limpy]

Gosh Greyhoundgal - they look really exotic!.......