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Sue Wrote:

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> Can anyone explain why a blue tit would peck at

> paint on my bathroom window sill?

>

> I thought there might be insects there, but it

> (and other birds) appear to be actually stripping

> the paint :-S

>

> And they are well provided for with peanuts and

> fat balls, as well!

>

> Also - something has made off with a whole net of

> birdseed which was hanging on a branch - plus the

> metal hook it was hanging from!! Surely a squirrel

> couldn't do that?? It's all completely

> disappeared!

>

> :-S



Bloody squirrels........ rats in cute outfits, that's what I say!

I have seen the 2 young foxes quite a few times in and around Archdale/Frogley Road. I would say definately the same young foxes that have been in Sue`s garden. What worries me is the fact that they don`t seem to be to frightend of cars or Humans. I drove down Archdale at 8.30pm last Wednesday and one of them was sitting in the road and the other on the pavement near bye. I drove slowly expecting them to run but we just sat looking at each other for about 5 minutes until another car came flying up in the other direction. They are absolutely beautiful.
  • 2 weeks later...

Foxes haven't come back :-S


But I have seen huge bumblebees around my Mahonia japonica (flowering) - in this weather?!


And this morning I looked out of my kitchen window and saw a very small animal (not a bird, not a squirrel) running along a large stem of a rambling rose towards the garden wall - it was so fast and I was so bleary eyed I didn't catch what it was.


Do mice do that?

HI all


Here is what I know about bumble bees being out and about this late in the year.


They are "social" insects like honey bees, but their nests only consist of very small numbers. In the nest, only one or two will be actively foraging etc at any one time. Bees that emerge late in the year, will eventually attempt to "hibernate" (they go into "diapause") by finding a place to settle down, sometimes in the nest, but often alone. Quite often this is in the undergrowth of a grassy area. If they survive the winter (a big if...) they will emerge in the early spring, but they won't last long. What a life...first yer born...then yer work ard...then you die. Bumble bees actually do work themselves to death; their wings etc are ragged with use at the end.


Maybe a bee expert could give us more info.


rn gutsell

SteveT Wrote:

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> Had a pair of longtailed tits visit the garden but

> didn't get involved with the peanut feeder.

>

>xxxxxxxxx


Hey I'm so jealous, have never had longtailed tits in London, used to get them a lot when I lived in Oundle, plus a whole family of woodpeckers came to the garden :)


Do you live near a wood?

The scaffolding's come down off the block - the plants and the birdfeeders and boxes are going up. The birdfeeders are squirrel proof, but we also have some 'fat' balls in a hanger thing.

This morning we saw all the usual blue tits but also a WREN and of course some noisy green parrots/parakeets get stuck in to the fat balls. It was a delight to see the wren! They don't eat from birdfeeders but they'll go through the plants for insects and so on. Sometimes we see woodpeckers at our birdfeeder too. We live on the hill between the park and the cemetery, so there's plenty of wildlife all round.

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