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[Cazikins]

Is it dead or alive Jaypo?  (hopefully alive)
Not much wildlife in my garden at the moment apart from bloody bumble bees around the massive lavender bush. The dog chases them & it's a wonder one of them hasn't stung him.

[jaypo]

Haha still alive,sets off our Ring cameras,plenty bees on our lavender too,I don't mind them though but yes,our dogs are going to get stung one day soon too

[CLKD]

Bumble bees are fascinating.  If 1 grows lavender, they will visit  .   We haven't had many here this year 

Rabbit = carrots, roasties, peas and gravy 

Don't follow it down that hole though 

[jaypo]

If you lived here clkd I'd have no wildlife left coz you'd have eaten it all 

[CLKD]

Especially squirrels 

[jaypo]

On toast ma'am?

[CLKD]

Curried  .  Pork dripping, on toast ;-)

[jaypo]

Aww geeze,you want me pigs too!?!?

[CLKD]

Yep ........ no waste on a piggy except his squeak ...........

[jaypo]

So excited,first time EVER our ring camera has caught a fox,it was having a good old sniff round our motorhome,normally it's magpies or our resident bunny,so I'm a happy gal 

[CLKD]

.......  unless neighbours have chicken, rabbits, guniea pigs .......... but they are lovely, especially the cubs playing: the shades of fur caught in the evening sunlight can be stunning.  How big, one of this year's cubs?  One can smell a dog fox for miles  . Also the brush in the winter is thick.

That noise in Spring is when the vixen is mated ......... puts the hairs on the back of my neck up!

I suppose that because we keep animals in captivity it makes it easier 4 foxes and badgers to get an easy meal?  When we built our chicken run it was wired underneath and all over the coop with lots of heavy wire to stop them climbing in from the top.  Fortunately it worked.  DH took the coop/run down last week, he had done a Really Good Job  .  Wire now being used to support tay/black/raspberries ........

[CLKD]

Our wren is back after months ............. she was picking up meal worms like she hadn't eaten for a while ;-).  Then two began shouting at each other.

[jaypo]

We had three woodpeckers in the garden yesterday,think it was mum and two babies.......babies? Anyway,she was feeding them.
Our neighbour across the road has poultry and ducks,maybe I should tell him?

[CLKD]

Oh please do tell him.  Suggest buying a couple of llamas as they will see off foxes!

We rarely see woodpeckers here, such a privilege.  She'll soon get fed up with the babies  . 

[CLKD]

I had a weird experience this evening  .  I was tying up a herb plant: yellow flowers, tall, long green leaves, spreads everywhere    - tansy I think.  I noted what I initially thought was seeds all over my hair, arms etc., but they were MOVING 

Red greenfly 

Far better much later: pruning the buddleah hard back and found a nest in the shape of a dish with feathers, hair, fluff and fishing line  - probably goldfinch.