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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sat Aug 10, 24 8:22 am Post subject:

Could you train something over the alley to stop the peregrine using it. Mouse castle seems ideal.

Saw a number of deer the other day; a roe buck completely out in the open near a road and a doe and a couple of well grown fawns in the wood. Also saw several silver washed fritillary butterflies, a small blue, meadow brown and painted lady yesterday. Best count of butterflies this year. We have had some in the garden, but a lot fewer than most years. Think it was the weather over the winter and spring.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 24 3:28 pm Post subject:

before any training i need the new wall to set

the daws have adjusted, the mice are happy, i have 3 power pigeons, hansom mrs hansom and young hansom, the rest are either no more or moved on

less sparrows, they often take a working holiday in the countryside about this time of year

about an hour ago i was doing the bins(a bit energetic for me, but tt has gone to Lincoln to see keifer sutherland and pals, better than work or mother visits)
that bit is not wildlife

there is/was a very young and very poorly looking squab in the alley, i was tempted to intervene but took advice from the lucilla, who were not quite waiting for the next stage

it might get rescued by parents, it looked sick enough to have been evicted by them

this one is far beyond my avian veterinary skills, hansom was a nearly eaten and orphaned, this one has little potential vitality looking at it

a bit harsh but circle of life etc

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 24 8:22 am Post subject:
a few feathers in the alley this morning explains the corvid squawking and flapping about noises 45 mins after the mention of the poorly squab oh well, it was fairly swift, and the corvids got a meal if i had dispatched it, they might have missed out on afternoon tea

dpack

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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 24 6:41 pm Post subject:
yep ace critters

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Mon Aug 26, 24 1:10 pm Post subject:
Still not keen on pigeons en masse, although I could accept that individual birds have some good human interactions.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8957
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 24 9:31 am Post subject:
The starlings are really going for the berries on the Himalayan Honeysuckle bush and the young Rowan tree. They haven't started on the Fuschia yet

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15998

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 24 7:37 am Post subject:

Went into the greenhouse to water yesterday and found some hornets after the split grapes. Didn't recognise them as they didn't seem as big as the ones we get in the woods, and the wood ones have bright pink legs. Husband chased them round the greenhouse for a bit but eventually got a picture on his phone for ID. Definitely hornets, so must be a nest somewhere that is on the way out as they don't normally feed on sugar but insects.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 24 3:15 pm Post subject:
hornets are usually ok if they meet you rather than you visit them retrace your steps at the first headbutt the second is a final warning do not ignore it for a while i thought they were what got me in the leg, they were not mostly harmless if you let them do hornet things with no distractions

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 24 3:41 pm Post subject:

my wildlife has a new dik at dawn

the mice are surprised by the good and currently dangeroos changes,
hopefully on Saturday 900mm of mesh will start to repel feline raiders
or make their escape more "interesting"

the birds are a bit cautious, one hand feeder only arrives when i am there, the other HF and mr and mrs hansom are a bit bolder

mrs H is daft as a brush, she has not noticed grin passing over at least twice in the last hour , 2 grins then 1 grin
i noticed them, i might only lose an eye or some dignity if i have any left, rather than become afternoon tea on the patio

2 pies at dawn, busy doing pie stuff and looking for breakfast

my "special spider"bite is settling after , not sure how long maybe 2 months?
very little to see initially or as time passed, a bit of swelling for a few days, that settled into constant pain along with a few neurological twitches
i can still feel it, the only visible sign is one tiny hole and a pair of tiny holes

the last two nips were very swelling/potential necrosis, this one is mostly nerve damage

tt grew up in the tropics, i survived temperate rain forest, we will be ok

although i am a bit conflicted between fascinating and slightly dangeroos living free-range in a domestic setting

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15998

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 24 8:02 am Post subject:

Went to RHS Wisley gardens yesterday and saw a reasonable amount of wildlife including some rather unexpected ones. On one of the lakes there was an adult moorhen, a younger one without the red over the beak, and a chick that was still at the fluffy stage, but swimming around quite happily. At the bird hide we saw great tits, another tit which may have been a blue tit, a nuthatch and rather oddly a couple of parakeets. I knew they were in Kent and London but didn't know they had got that far. Rather regrettable as they should be in foreign parts, not here.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 24 7:33 am Post subject:
Was digging over the potato bed again to pick up ones I had missed and realised there were a few wasps around me. Went to the other side and realised we had a nest between the next bed and a wooden board leaning against it. Will leave them alone as they will die out over winter anyway.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 24 8:27 am Post subject:
We were up at a show yesterday and there was a kestrel hovering really nicely over the next field. Sadly. son didn't have the right lens on his camera, but it was lovely to see. We used to get a lot of them, but then all the scrub was removed from along the main road and lack of food means they moved on as they got small rodents like mice from the road edges.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 24 7:51 am Post subject:
Husband and son saw something crossing the track in the woods yesterday at high speed. They described it as a barrel with a pointy bit on the front, and think it might have been a wild boar. They are both sides of us, but didn't know we had any in our area. Will keep a look out.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 24 8:54 am Post subject:

barrel with a pointy bit on front is a boar

check either side of the track it crossed for footprints, that would be an easy hog confirmation (ditto hair on the wire etc)

they don't want to meet you, so are safe in that way

you may surprise them in the bushes while working or pottering, which i have been told is interesting (i heard the noises in the dark and spent the night in a tree just in case)
this time of year they are probably after acorns and similar
it has been an odd year for nature so they might be having to seek new forage grounds
it may have been a young boar starting out on his own

delicious

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 24 7:08 am Post subject:

It has been sighted, briefly, by someone else in our woodland complex, but again briefly enough not to be sure. The ground either side is thick grass, and unfortunately, by the time they had registered it might be a wild boar, husband and son had driven over the track. No fences, and only hazel one side and general soft undergrowth the other so no hair. It does worry me a bit as most of the trees aren't very climbable.

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