Wildlife & Gardens

Cheek - they had already been edited -) !!

 

Spent an hour with this baby blue t1t after it crashed into our kitchen window. Having recovered it didn’t know what to do and so refused to fly away until its parents came back for it. Which they did …..45 mins later…..and after lots of calling and several flybys it flew into a tree and a parent flew straight to it. I guess if they hadn't come back I would now be a step-dad !
Then a green woodpecker arrived 6 feet away from the same window to hammer the living daylights out of an ants nest.
I have great video of the wp and the t1t calling and refusing to fly away from my hand but it seems impossible to upload video presume due to the file sizes....

 

They're often just dazed for a bit and will eventually fly off.

I've got some stickers on my patio doors which seems to have stopped the problem at meister manor

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beautiful-Humming-Static-Window-Stickers/dp/B082WGCFQ3/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=1I8FT45RK7QCG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.t_-2X11Hk9lVG0Xy4T8lkQtq0OjvPZjYP_dvL8mb4KNUj8I5KkS06qvwMYCZg9bxtkcLkKvJEPPGqrPeMvfRkbHfaEBKLn_TZRFwRsO45rllPtMQ2UaV6xjvLE4hS99dJhM0QFkj7NJ_u1MUciF-jfBplN1NBq6ohXEOxAxyx-yvkcnINSGU85caFNW4LvqrqkswWcqgVi6igCgcQgnaS7pMu4CUBR5yE47Gx0M0JQgXFUjMS1P8CRL-Xvajky9N0bYHKoaaq3VkdNe7d7FVb6IutdMJM1Hs9JwGdZiISso.TjIU0LHz0gEbrhsGHN5t4dpp3Fr7-T6UuFDzINjSTE0&dib_tag=se&keywords=bird+strike+stickers&qid=1718709876&sprefix=birdstrike+stic,aps,574&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

 

We have the same but have a lot of glass. To be fully effective they suggest gaps between the silhouettes should be less than 2 feet which just isn’t practical.

 

Finally I have my allotment. Been up there over the weekend to dig out the last persons final crop, (mostly tomatoes), dig over some beds and lay some sheeting to suppress the weeds. It's not a bad one compared to what I could have received.

Since being on the waiting list I acquired a nice greenhouse but the plot came with one, (but no shed). Now on the lookout for a battered shed on marketplace!

 

Given the recent weather, have you considered a paddyfield ?

 

Great shout. Add some chickens, onions and curry leaf and I can literally grow my own chicken katsu curry.

 

I would not put plastic on the soil. It’s rubbish as a long term weed suppressant. I would us Napalm. If not available, a 3 inch layer of stable manure will be sufficient to kill off most weeds. The deep rooted ones will make I through the mulch, but in a weakened state making them easy yo just pull out.