Hedgehog in the garden

[Sue]

dimples Wrote:

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have to tell you all with great

> excitement , I saw a kingfisher in peckham rye

> park 2 weeks ago and one of the park keepers saw a

> little owl !

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I'm very jealous :)

Whereabouts was the kingfisher? By a stream?

[dimples]

the kingfisher was flying up towards me nr where the billboard is showing you a picture of one and the details to its lifestyle , next to stream and japanese garden

[bonniebird]

I saw the Kingfisher there too!!! A flash of electric blue, was on the pond early morning dog walk :)

[Lover of dulwich]

We have a few around at times..I keep a spare tin of dogs food in the cupboard and give them some BUT I understand milk can be VERY bad for them...also hope people just give a quick check before lighting bonfires as many get killed when sleeping in the twigs etc

[trevnsarah]

we had a small hedgehog in the garden of our old place on tewkesbury lodge estate back in march (husband saw a much bigger one on liphook cresent the previous summer). Saw a couple of buzzards a few weeks back and always curious why there arent more birds of prey (buzzards etc) given the amount of vermin etc

[Sue]

trevnsarah Wrote:

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> Saw a couple of buzzards a

> few weeks back and always curious why there arent

> more birds of prey (buzzards etc) given the amount

> of vermin etc

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Maybe they're finding better pickings elsewhere?

I had a bird of prey in my tiny garden a few years ago. It was actually quite scary because it was so large in relation to the size of the garden.

I used to get a load of starlings coming down to my bird feeders, and it had one in its claws. The poor starling was making the most terrible noise. I was going to go out and try to rescue the starling, but thought better of it when I realised what a large beak and claws might do to me, never mind the starling :))