ED Nature Watch

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Just to report, think it's woody nightshade, but gardener decided to remove them anyway on the 'better safe than sorry' principle. He was really sweet and I didn't feel like an idiot at all! Sue - passed on your comments, much appreciated.

[Nunhead Matt]

Found a frog in the garden the other day. Freaked out my cat, Marmite. Saw a dead fox on the pavement in Peckham

[Sue]

Pickle Wrote:

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> Sue, there was a note up at the fountain last week

> saying it was being cleaned, hence the blue

> colour. I haven't been for a few days... is it

> still blue?!

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It was bright blue on Sunday afternoon, didn't see a note but the fountain was surrounded by kids so I could have missed it!

Glad to hear it's temporary :))

[ianr]

I wrote on 12 April:

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> A pied wagtail on Tulse Hill station this morning (platform 3).

More recent sightings: a few weeks ago, Tulse Hill, platform 2, and today, Wimbledon, platform 9. These are both FCC train platforms. Does ED have no pied wagtails?

[ruthmct]

I'm pleased to report we have a large family of blue-tits - there were 7 teenagers feeding on the suet balls and peanuts this afternoon.

Ruth

[Sue]

:)

[flapjackdavey]

ianr Wrote:

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> I wrote on 12 April:

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> > A pied wagtail on Tulse Hill station this

> morning (platform 3).

>

> More recent sightings: a few weeks ago, Tulse

> Hill, platform 2, and today, Wimbledon, platform

> 9. These are both FCC train platforms. Does ED

> have no pied wagtails?

dunno about pied wagtails . but I have seen a grey woodpecker on east dulwich station a few weeks ago .

[SimonM]

Fountain still blue today..

[Sue]

flapjackdavey Wrote:

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> dunno about pied wagtails . but I have seen a grey

> woodpecker on east dulwich station a few weeks ago

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Great Spotted they are, not Grey :)

What was it doing? Pecking some part of the station??

[Sue]

SimonM Wrote:

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> Fountain still blue today..

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I can't see how it is going to become not blue, unless someone drains the existing blue water out and replaces it with lovely clear water .....

That blue really clashes with the subtle colours of the flowers in that garden.

[louisiana]

Two dunnocks in the garden, bouncing around the edge of the border. Also singing very loudly.

dunnock image and birdsong recording

[Karrie]

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[SteveT]

If I hang those fat balls up I get plagued by half a dozen sparrows, perhaps give them a go and see what happens.

[Sue]

I get loads of sparrows in my garden, counted about fifteen at one point over the winter - and it's a very very tiny garden.

Never get any finches though!

Maybe they have different stamping grounds in ED :)

Quite weird though, a year or so back I had zillions of starlings on the birdfeeder, since a bird of prey got one in my garden they've all disappeared.

[Karrie]

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[SteveT]

I get finches on the peanut feeder, along with tits and sometimes sparrows if times are hard in winter.

It was soooo hot last night I went out after midnight to organically reduce the population of slugs amd snails, a torch and boots were the preferred choice.

Now there are flies buzzing around and over every carcase, fighting other flies for space to lay their eggs.

A couple of previously healthy potato plants had been reduced to ragged shadows of their former selves, they were being harassed by a couple of snails and three slugs, but not any more.

[Karrie]

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[cate]

You've planted leeks, not leaks !!!! That really made me laugh......sorry.

[Karrie]

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[cate]

Karrie Wrote:

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> Oops :))

>

> I definitely hope 'leaks' don't take hold on my

> property, and a leaky potato pie would be no good

> either.

>

> leeks leeks leeks, I'll remember next time.

>:D< Isn't the English language strange!

[Karrie]

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[SteveT]

I have found a couple of toads in the garden whilst using the hose,

they really take offence at water being sprinkled over them,

and is the best way I know to find out if you have these amphibians lurking in your garden.

My peas are doing well this year but they never see a plate or saucepan,

I eat them raw off the plant, so sweet and delicious.

[Penguin68]

Since toads eat lots of things like slugs which ruin your plants they should be being encouraged, not made to take offence - you are really lucky to have toads in your garden. If you use slug pellets the poisoned slugs will be eaten by toads and kill them - which removes your free and helpful little garden helpers.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Is it weird to go into raptures over brambles? They are so pretty at the moment with their delicate blossom and what a joy to see little green blackberries biding their time.

[SteveT]

Some of my green blackberries are now turning pink, goody goody!