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QueenMab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't think you need do anything really. I've > seen the odd rat in or near my garden in my time, > in various locations of London. London, nay the > world, is full of rats, so you're likely to see > them now and again. If you start seeing them > regularly in your garden you might think about > calling the council or put down some poison, but > otherwise I wouldn't worry xxxxxxxx Very sensible advice :)

AlanM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A man with a parrot lives in the house opposite me > on Whateley Road. Might be the same man or maybe > there are a few of them in ED! xxxxxxx Could well have been as The Actress is not far from Whateley Road. If the man takes the parrot for a walk, of course. Can't believe I've never seen him around here before :)

Jo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To follow up my husband swears it was a buzzard, > not a kestrel. xxxxxxx Must have been a buzzard, then :)) xxxxxxx Far too big to be a kestrel, he > says. I'd believe him rather than me, given how > small I used to think badgers are. xxxxxxxx I have the opposite thing, I used to think moles were as big as badgers :))

Anyone else using Plusnet had connection problems in the last week or two?

Did anybody else see a man with a large white parrot on his left shoulder (no crutch, no eyepatch, no seaweed in evidence) walking up Upland Road (Crystal Palace Road end) around 1pm today? We'd only just got to the Actress so it wasn't an effect of the excellent Broadside :))

peterstorm1985 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Sounds odd to me, surely young foxes don't > > normally die of natural causes? > > Actually they do. The garden next to us was > unkempt for years and regularly used by families > of foxes. We had had occasional dead foxes but > when the garden next door was cleared by property > developers they found a surprising number of cub > skeletons. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :-S

You can't mistake a red kite, because of the forked tail.....

Tarot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know Wimbledon has brought a bird in to deter > pigeons, but I dont know what it is,maybe thats > lost its way. xxxxxx My OH's flatmate bought a large plastic crow, stuck black feathers all over it, and put it on their balcony to deter pigeons from nesting there. All the crows in the neighbourhood flew down and pecked all the feathers off it, so basically it has had no deterrent effect at all. Sorry, just had to share that, as you were :)

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > There is Nothing special about East Dulwich. that > justifies a 14.6% hike in price. xxxxxxxx Possibly their overheads are higher, eg rent?

Silly question I know, but can't you just go round to that address and ask? Or if you don't live in ED any more, write to them? More likely to get a response than posting on here!! Somewhat more specifically targeted!!

bandwagonesque Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Aren't Buzzards pretty big? xxxxxx Yes.

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My taste in music > your taste in music xxxxxx Obviously! My taste in anything > your taste in anything :)) :)-D

Thanks undisputed, still in bed but over the worst I think :)

They must be tree specialists, surely, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed to touch the trees? Is that naive of me? When I worked for Islington Council, the tree team were passionate about the trees in the borough, and I'd have thought it was unlikely Southwark were different? Surely they wouldn't just lop off branches for no reason - why on earth would you do that?

JosephWilkes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's no reason why it couldn't have been a > buzzard, xxxxxxx Yeh that was what the link in my last post was supposed to show - sorry for casting doubt earlier :)

Ingrime Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Ask which aisle washing powder is in and all will > be revealed... if you don't quite catch what's > said, nip into chener books and get the > bangladeshi to english 'phrase' guide... xxxxxx Don't be so ridiculous. I've never had the slightest problem understanding any of the staff in the Co-op, and it seems like you're just being - well, let's say unpleasant.

Extract from Wild About Britain Buzzard thread: Hi, I work for Greenspace Information for Greater London (Greenspace Information for Greater London), and part of our remit is to collate information on London's wildlife and open spaces. The information we hold comes in from a range of sources, from GiGL partners such as the London Boroughs through to members of the public (see our website for an up to date list of our partners). I've had a look at our information and we have over 400 records of common buzzard in Greater London, the most recent record having been sent in a couple of months ago. The main data contributors in this case are The Royal Parks, Greater London Authority and London Natural History Society. We are always keen to receive more information to help us build up a better picture of London's wildlife, so if any of you would like to tell us about what you've seen please visit our website. Once you have registered as a user you can submit your sightings online and have a look at some of the data that we already hold via our WIMBY tool. Kind regards Mandy

Well it pretty certainly wasn't a Golden Eagle, and red kites are easily identifiable by their forked tails. Did it have raggedy wings (technical term :)) ) at the edges? I know buzzards are common in the country, but one in East Dulwich??

123-lisap Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- our local ones seem to have gone > amiss too!!!!! Eh? Gone amiss? What do you mean?

I think moths are quite clean already :))

Bird of Prey Identifier

Sounds odd to me, surely young foxes don't normally die of natural causes?

Here's the other clothes moth thread and Here's the link to the Pest Control Supermarket I recommend

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm probably worng, but I seem to remember that > Sue was the mothinator. > xxxxxxx Yep :)) There's a recent thread (not recently started, but still being posted on) on moths in the ED issues section of the forum, I'll go back and look up the link to the place I used for my (successful - last year anyway!) extermination campaign :))

Are you sure it was a buzzard? http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/b/buzzard/feeding.aspx I've had a bird of prey in my garden eating the starlings, but it wasn't a buzzard. Can't remember now what it was, it was a few years back.