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Can anyone reassure me that just because I haven't seen any froglets for a week doesn't mean they may not be hiding in my garden somewhere?


Or has Dave the ancient cat who sits in my garden and seems to think I am a great friend of his finally managed to catch something?


No froggies either in the tub or in the surrounding plants :-S

  • 2 weeks later...

Hope your frogs have just gone walkabout, Sue. They spend a lot of their lives outside water so could be lurking under cover somewhere nearby. Fingers crossed for you.


I was really happy to see a flock of sparrows mobbing the feeders this week. Last summer, they spent a lot of time throwing hedge parties but haven't seen or heard much of them at all this year, just arriving in ones and twos, so to see 20 or so all at one time was great.

Not only have I not seen a froglet for ages, even when watering the garden, but I haven't seen a bird on my feeder for weeks either :-S



Something is eating the fatballs,however, so maybe it's the mysterious rodent I spotted earlier ......


I do have quite a lot of ground cover so hopefully the froggies are lurking somewhere .... they were so tiny that it would be hard to spot them unless they were actually hopping, but they did use to (grammar?) stay near the tub when they were out of the water. Maybe they've now ventured further afield.

There is a tree down Copleston Road (outside number 119) which has shed a load of the most amazing looking "seedheads", for want of a better word, which look like strange sea creatures. There are piles of them in the road and on the pavement, or at least there were at lunchtime today!


They have three nuts of some sort in each one, about the size of large acorns.


Does anybody know what it is?


I thought it might be a cobnut, but I've googled cobnut and I can't come up with anything which looks like the things I saw. Another passer-by said she thought they might be hazelnuts (and I've now discovered that they are more or less the same thing).


Anybody? I've brought three home with me, but the thought of getting a picture of sufficiently low res to upload on here almost makes me lose the will to live ..... :))

They sound like hazelnuts - the woman (whose name I've forgotten) who did the grow your own veg talk for the Dulwich Veg meeting brought a seedhead/bunch/thingy along, and it sounds like it might be your 'creature'. She said there were lots of hazelnut trees round East Dulwich. They are ripe when they fall off the tree.

Does this page help? http://www.arborday.org/programs/hazelnuts/consortium/types.cfm

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The ones I picked up don't really look like that, I think I will have to try to upload a photo of them, but not today!


I could go and get a leaf and check that out too.


Minkey, I'm scared to try and eat one in case it's something poisonous!!!

Cobnuts? http://yaymicro.com/stock-image/cob-nuts/2327275


Was it the tree at the corner of Brenchley Gardens and Kelvington? If so, I picked some up yesterday & ate them, with no ill effects thus far :-)

Now I'm not sure whether they are cobnuts or hazels, but I think the pods/bunches look like the above image of cobnuts, though when I've bought them from a fruit stalls they haven't looked like that, but perhaps the ones on Brenchley aren't fully ripe yet...

Went back yesterday on a scavenging expedition, but many of them had gone ....


Have just seen a froggie in my garden, hurrah!! So those of you who kindly told me they would still be around somewhere were right!!


It seems to have doubled in size since the last sighting .....


:)-D

I've started to find hazelnuts in the flowerbed while weeding (we were away much of August and the garden's disappeared into a tangle of green stuff). No hazel trees near us, so I must have disturbed a squirrel's stash. Sorry, squirrel!


And I promised sometime ago to find out what if anything we could do to help hedgehogs.

Here is a link to a new initiative called Hedgehog Street http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/pages/welcome-to-hedgehog-st.html I think it's been set up by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society . Junior Civilservant has just signed up to get a pack to find out how to be a Hedgehog Champion!

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