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Interesting material on this thread but none of you has told me what the hell the foxes are getting up to when they make that shreiking noise that sounds like an infant being stabbed, I've heard that it's the female vixens 'fakeing it' but surely there's more solid explaination.


This should answer your fox related screaming question...


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061001145713AA7qjrP

Over here on the SE15 side of the park, we have seen flocks of goldfinches in the trees behind our flats, and also heard but not seen the greater or lesser spotted woodpecker tho not caught him at the birdfeeder yet. The Peckham Rye Park kingfisher earned a thread all to himself last year on this site, but not had the honour of seeing him myself. Anyone going to the dawn chorus ID parade I think being organised by Peckham Society, on One Tree Hill? Details here.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Dear Google! Could it be a daddy long legs? Is it

> transparentish?


xxxxxx


No, wrong time of year and legs weren't that long.


Body maybe about a centimetre long, opaque white.


Will try a Google.


PGC, your bird with yellow flash on its wings, could it have been a greenfinch? Though I think they usually go in flocks, but maybe not all the time?

Saw the heron being attacked by a crow today. And yesterday saw a crow ripping apart a rat. Vicious buggers them crows.


ps - the binoculars I bought are actually pretty good - I don't think I was using them properly. Great view of St Paul's from Nunhead Cemetery.

panda boy Wrote:

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> So i'm sure everyones seen the new ducklings and

> moorhen chicks, but today i noticed the terrapin

> is awake now, and a new young heron in the Rye,

> (seemed smaller than the one that has been around

> for a few months...?)


We were so happy to see the new ducklings and moorhen chicks on Sunday .... (tu)

Sad news I'm afraid, whilst in the garden this morning I suddenly noticed that I could see the Robin's nest, before it was hidden under the ivy. I looked closer and could see it was empty. Something had taken/eaten the chicks. No sign of them on the ground either. I'd just been playing with a friendly cat who frequently comes into the garden, and later watched it walk up to beneath the nest, look up, and jump up into the hedge pawing at the empty nest. Not saying that cat, or any other cat, is the culprit, but I had to chase another cat away last week when I saw it hanging around and looking up at the hedge. We also have foxes and squirrels around, although I think squirrels are more interested in eggs. Nature can be cruel. The parent Robins have unsurprisingly disappeared. They have several clutches a year so hopefully they have better luck next time. Ironically, the friendly cat carries a tag with the name 'Savage'...

My garden is VERY small and has a buddleia which has become extrememly overgrown and is blocking out most of the sunlight. It means I won't have room for any beans or tomatoes unless I cut it back. However...

Yesterday I noticed a pair of goldfinches flying in and out of it. They've been doing it regularly since. Should I cut back the tree or will it stop them from coming into my garden?

I'm not planning to cut the whole thing down, just reduce it by about a third. Oh and they're not nesting in the buddleia as it is not stable enough - it blows about all over the place in firm wind...

The Robins are back!, they're building a nest in a neighbour's garden, similar place though, in an ivy clad wall about 4/5 foot of the ground, easy for a cat/fox to jump up, might suggest to neighbour to put some kind of wire mesh 'ring fence' guarding on the ground underneath the nest to prevent an animal from jumping up, any ideas?...

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