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[CLKD]

update on the otter found by the roadside: oh, link didn't work 

"on our Blog at http://www.otter.org/Public/News_Blog.aspx "  - Grace is talking on Radio Cambridgeshire at 7.45 a.m.

[Hurdity]

We've had visits from our family of long-tailed tits today several times - and they seem to be coming more often these days.  I love hearing their tweeting sound as they gather in the hedge to feed. Also sometimes nuthatches too - there was a family of three on a tree in the village down the road as I went for a walk along the lanes too

Hurdity x

[Elizabethrose]

Last weekend, my husband and I sat breakfasting whilst watching an extraordinary selection of tits on our feeders. We had long tail tits, coal tits, blue tits and great tits all one feeder, until the pesky parakeets descended and scared them all away! Does anyone else get the ring necked parakeets, London is awash with them!

[CLKD]

Do they cook well Elizabethrose?  - in Oz they are a pest!

So far we don't: grey squirrels are bad enough! 

The birds here have been busy, maybe they read the dire forecast?

[Elizabethrose]

Parakeet star-gazy pie?! They are the noisiest living creatures and will empty a feeder in half an hour.

[CLKD]

Not in our garden, we have an air-rifle : each  and a slow cooker 

[Elizabethrose]

Whoa really? My hubby is constantly threatening to buy one. We have a catapult and fire wine gums at the pesky gulls to stop them from nesting on our chimneys! So much wildlife here it's ridiculous - get back to the country!

Yes I understand that there are loads of the pesky parakeets in Surrey too Sparkle. They really are the noisiest of birds. They settle en masse in a tree in our back garden and could raise the dead with their noise, it's horrendous! We buy our feeders and wildlife supplies online from a brilliant company called Living With Birds and they have a range of squirrel deterrents. We have a twanging spring on all of our feeder poles which twangs downwards if they try to climb, collapsable feeding stations on the feeders and some feeders that spin and flick the squirrels off. Haha, whilst we are inundated with the little blighters, I find them highly amusing: it's hilarious watching them trying to work out a new way to attack when they've been thwarted. x

[Elizabethrose]

Haha, I can just picture that, hahaha! I could tell you a story about a parakeet but I'd have to kill you! 

[Taz2]

We have a recipe page.  It tastes like chicken, apparently 

Does this mean you don't actually eat them yourself then? 

Taz x

[CLKD]

Not yet Taz 

As for parakeets ........... do they not eat the wine gums 

[Elizabethrose]

No but the pesky squirrels do, saw two fighting over one one day - most bizarre!

[dulciana]

We have a little elephant in the hallway.  He's about the size of a small-ish dog and he's called Heffie.  He's got the sweetest face, pure white tusks, white feet and is very cuddly.  But he's already had my hubby's brother-in-law patting him on the head and Hubby coo-ing at him.   Me?  I say hello to Heffie whenever I pass him and give him a quick cuddle every night!  He's not real (never!) and I bought him from a shop.........but surely he still counts as Nature???   

[Elizabethrose]

Er, shamefacedly no but with the catapult! 

[Elizabethrose]

They don't call me Annie Oakley for nothing! I will add at this point that no parakeet was injured beyond the initial knockout, it flew awake happily!! 

[cubagirl]

Saw a grey squirrel scampering down a tree opposite us. Didn't realise we had any close by. Down in nearby woods, maybe, but not beside us.