Wildlife & Gardens

Foxy back as I returned.
Fed her two meatballs by hand and a chicken wing.
She's taken two other meatballs.
Hopefully back after dark.
Extraordinary thing to have her take from my hand.
I feel privileged.

 

I note that I’m getting an ad at the top of the forum encouraging me to shoot partridge (not Alan) in Spain.

All because I said ducks were tasty.

 

I get ads encouraging me to shoot lawyers, but not for the same reason.

 

I believe that is lawful in most advanced nations.

 

You need to buy a large baggy one for the winter that fits over your coat !

 

Foxy was back again just after 9pm.
More wings and meatballs for her and she trotted off to cache I expect.

They eat better than we do!

 

Ever had any grief off anyone for wearing that?

 

Yes I'd love to get to feed ours by hand but they are very much wild and I'd be fearful that they would start to approach other people in the village who may not be so kind. I always put the food out after dark (so the magpies don't eat it) and then sit with a torch (and the cat) 20 feet away. They aren't phased by me talking to the cat and sometimes sit on the lawn 20 feet from "the feeding station" waiting for me to come out. Like many things in my life, I'm just nervous about trying to take it past first base .
Re the magpies, we have a problem for the next 2 weeks as the cat/fish/fox feeder comes during daylight so she now puts a plastic plant pot over the food. The wildlife camera shows the magpies confused and walking round and round the pot, but the foxes have learned to lift up the pot, drop it 6 feet away, and then get at their food....after several evenings of running round the pot, growling at it, sitting waiting for it to move on etc .

 

I know what you mean - I knocked up a load of "Tories out" posters using images from https://www.coldwarsteve.com/ and put them up in the windows before the local elections a couple of weeks ago. I was itching for some Tory c*** to come knocking, but they never did.

 

Foxy back at about 10am but with an obstruction in her mouth.

Thankfully at about 12pm she had removed it, chicken bone.

I shall have to remove bones later and or put more meatballs and less wings!

Very traumatic.

 

Yes chicken bones not good for dogs and therefore presumably foxes. You need to leave out a menu !

 

Yeah, ‘cos foxes never eat chickens.

Speaking as one…

 

I don’t think foxes tend to eat their chickens baked, sautéed or grilled .

 

I wasn’t aware we were discussing a cooked chicken. As you were, then.

 

I thought he had me there …thank you for riding to my rescue !

 

I would “of” got away with it if it hadn’t been for that meddling mod.

 

You don't know how many they have!

They are the best fed animals in Hertfordshire!

I'm thinking of putting up a sign with " No starlings" on it.

Raving mad and monopolizing the feeders.

 

Do you have a feeder with fat pellets? We find that, by having one of those separate from the seed feeders, starlings will be all over it and leave the seeds to finches etc.

 

I'm happy for the starlings, sparrows, **** and robins to use our feeders - especially as they have young at the moment and it is a pleasure seeing huge "babies" demanding food from smaller parents. It is pigeons that land on our feeder and nearly capsize it that bugs me - they hoover up so much so quickly. I chase them away till the smaller birds have had their share.
Fat balls here get taken by gulls and crows mostly

 

I do.
They are eating about six hard fat balls a day,not to mention those in my near neighbours' gardens!

I've given up on the softer version, they're gone before I've returned to the house!

Have numerous sizes of feeders,the Conqueror with twelve stations,some with two,some with four so the smaller birds do get a look in. As I went out for my afternoon work I saw both types of sparrows on them and a Great Pozzo and a Blue Pozzo.

I also have a house feeder hanging outside the front door,a gift from a grateful parent. The Blue Pozzos can feed there.

 

Excellent first episode of Springwatch.

Iolo unwell and possibly too many evenings in the Tadpole and Ticket office for his own good.

Meg standing in,not overly keen on her.

Nightjars, Ospreys and a Welsh Blackbird with a dog collar and a name like 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogeychwyrndrobw' or close!

Oh and a Vydra family too on the canal.

Bee with pollen trousers in the mindfulness moment sounded like a Caravaggio to me!

 

It was also the first I’ve heard that Snowdon isn’t Snowdon any more.

 

Yes that was odd wasn't it?
Did they explain why,I was flicking between the tennis at one point.

 

No they didn’t. I assume it’s the same as the official renaming of the Brecon Beacons, which was in the news recently but is now being railed against by some in local hospitality.

 

(Chants) You’re not Snowdon anymore. You’re not Snowdon anymore.

 

(Chants) The name's so Welsh it's unpronounceable! The name's so Welch it's unpronouceable!

 

No way Watford fans are chanting anything with five syllables m8.

 

5 whats, m8??

 

Five bits of a word… as in: Un-be-lieve-ab-ul. As in: We’re so good it’s unbelievable. (Only older fans will remember this one though.)

 

Foxy back ten minutes after I returned at 3pm.

Slightly frothing at the mouth.


I have her 8 beef pieces which she ate.

I am in a Facebook dialogue with Fox Angels who think she has an obstruction in her airway.

Very concerning.