ED Nature Watch

[Zig-Zag]

Are you single Foxy as I think we'd get on well?!!! "My" foxes do the same and sit by the back door waiting for supper 😄. But one has terrible mange and I can't find any animal charity to help me trap the poor thing in order to treat him or her 😭😭😭

[TheArtfulDogger]

http://foxproject.org.uk

[Zig-Zag]

Thank you yes I had already tried the Fox Project but they say they don't cover SE London unfortunately and suggested I try (which I am) a homeopathic treatment which i have no faith in, to be honest. Vet will not give me proper vetinary medication on prescription as it is very dangerous to dogs but they could administer it if fox was caught.

[BrandNewGuy]

Just had a report of a pheasant on the St Olave's playing fields next to Green Dale cycle path.

The East Dulwich Shoot will convene at 4pm. Volunteer beaters required...

[TE44]

Hi, this may be wrong section but does anyone know if grounds in One Tree Hill and specifically St Augustine Churchs garden,is organically managed, I will also ask james, the councillor, thanks.

[Asset]

I've heard rumour of the pheasant too. Yet to see it though.

[BrandNewGuy]

There were actually two pheasants there ? a male and a female. Here's a snap of the male:

[Asset]

Thanks!

Wonder how they got there...

[BrandNewGuy]

They're known to use the cover of all the greenery of railway embankments to venture this close in to central London. Pheasant motorways :)

[tarafitness]

Plenty of foxes near Peckham Rye, we see them in the garden a lot. This cheeky young one was trying to bury what looked like an orange ball in our lawn the other day :)

[katanita]

Is it me or are the autumn colours on ED street trees even more spectacular than usual in places? Some really fiery reds and oranges. Is it a result of the summer heatwaves or something else?

[Asset]

I would have thought a brace of pheasants would be easy pickings for the foxes. Especially if traversing along the railways.

[BrandNewGuy]

They're a bit useless at self-defence, but they are big and that will put off a fox. There are far easier pickings in south London than trying to hunt down a large and very feathery meal :)

[originalwynne]

We have also been concerned about and trying to feed (and medicate homeopathically, which we have no faith in either) a very sickly fox cub in the vicinity of the new life assembly church on upland. Perhaps the same fox?

Zig-Zag Wrote:

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> Thank you yes I had already tried the Fox Project

> but they say they don't cover SE London

> unfortunately and suggested I try (which I am) a

> homeopathic treatment which i have no faith in, to

> be honest. Vet will not give me proper vetinary

> medication on prescription as it is very dangerous

> to dogs but they could administer it if fox was

> caught.

[nxjen]

Signs of spring: daffodils are already above ground in my garden

[Sue]

nxjen Wrote:

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> Signs of spring: daffodils are already above

> ground in my garden

Or signs of climate change :(

[Nigello]

Not ED, but close enough:

The pond in the wildlife garden in PR Park has been refilled and looks like a proper pond. The very dense plant growth has been cut right back.

Hopefully it will mean more frogs, toads, newts, water insects, etc.

[DawnSE22]

I?ve got some trees (2ft whips) courtesy of The Conservation Volunteers to make SE22 greener, fight the climate crisis and to help wildlife.

If you would like some please let me know. You can either collect from Crystal Palace Rd or if you are local and not a gardener I am happy to plant them for you in your garden. All the trees (Rowan, Bird Cherry, Hazel, Hawthorn and Crab Apple) are suitable for small gardens.

[SpringTime]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> There were actually two pheasants there ? a male

> and a female. Here's a snap of the male:

Thanks BNG. Looks like a tasty cock.

[IlonaM]

nxjen Wrote:

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> Signs of spring: daffodils are already above

> ground in my garden

My cherry is in blossom. Barmy.

[Sue]

IlonaM Wrote:

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> nxjen Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Signs of spring: daffodils are already above

> > ground in my garden

>

>

> My cherry is in blossom. Barmy.

Some cherries are winter-flowering.

Is it this one?

https://www.ornamental-trees.co.uk/prunus-subhirtella-autumnalis-rosea-tree-p225/s13045?utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=prunus-subhirtella-apos-autumnalis-rosea-apos-form-pruned-amp-sh-form-pruned-shaped-tree-supplied-size-150-200cm-root-type-10l-pot-prau10l150-200&utm_campaign=froogle&gclid=CjwKCAiA3OzvBRBXEiwALNKDP3OBgYJcL6eV-uOmdtGceDEhDx90klBPUcLyR5yEk6YeEARgj437MxoCcJoQAvD_BwE

(I had to edit a number of times because all of the RHS links I tried to post came up with this error message when I clicked on them on here: "A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (?)".

OOOERR :(

[Sue]

Lots of loud bird song the last couple of days.

Very welcome, of course, but a bit early in the year for it, isn't it??

[IlonaM]

Sue Wrote:

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> > My cherry is in blossom. Barmy.

>

>

> Some cherries are winter-flowering.

>

> Is it this one?

>

>

> https://www.ornamental-trees.co.uk/prunus-subhirte

> lla-autumnalis-rosea-tree-p225/s13045?utm_medium=c

> pc&utm_term=prunus-subhirtella-apos-autumnalis-ros

> ea-apos-form-pruned-amp-sh-form-pruned-shaped-tree

> -supplied-size-150-200cm-root-type-10l-pot-prau10l

> 150-200&utm_campaign=froogle&gclid=CjwKCAiA3OzvBRB

> XEiwALNKDP3OBgYJcL6eV-uOmdtGceDEhDx90klBPUcLyR5yEk

> 6YeEARgj437MxoCcJoQAvD_BwE

>

I've been here a few years now and it is more of an early Spring cherry!! It's very pretty in an otherwise wintery-looking garden, but jumping the gun a wee bit.

[IlonaM]

Sue Wrote:

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> Lots of loud bird song the last couple of days.

>

> Very welcome, of course, but a bit early in the

> year for it, isn't it??

Loads of early risers in Underhill too. I love the dawn chorus.

[BrandNewGuy]

They start singing in earnest once the days start getting longer. It's all about marking out territories and finding mates ? a bird needs both sorted out well before spring, otherwise it's another year of being single :)