Feeling very lucky to live here....

[LadyNorwood]

Looking at my garden I see five foxes sunbathing (soon to be more if the rotundeness of Mother Fox is anything to go by), four blue tits, three squirrels, two magpies and one woodpecker... I feel very lucky to live here....

[Sue]

LadyNorwood Wrote:

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> Looking at my garden I see five foxes sunbathing

> (soon to be more if the rotundeness of Mother Fox

> is anything to go by), four blue tits, three

> squirrels, two magpies and one woodpecker... I

> feel very lucky to live here....

xxxxxx

You clearly haven't had foxes digging up large parts of your small garden, uprooting cherished plants in the process :)

Nor squirrels eating all the suet balls which you lovingly hang up for the birds :)

Don't get me wrong, I love foxes and squirrels but .....

[SteveUK1978]

...and a partridge in a pear tree?

[LadyNorwood]

SteveUK1978 Wrote:

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> ...and a partridge in a pear tree?

I did think that at the time!!

[LadyNorwood]

Sue Wrote:

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> LadyNorwood Wrote:

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

> -----

> > Looking at my garden I see five foxes

> sunbathing

> > (soon to be more if the rotundeness of Mother

> Fox

> > is anything to go by), four blue tits, three

> > squirrels, two magpies and one woodpecker... I

> > feel very lucky to live here....

>

> xxxxxx

>

> You clearly haven't had foxes digging up large

> parts of your small garden, uprooting cherished

> plants in the process :)

>

> Nor squirrels eating all the suet balls which you

> lovingly hang up for the birds :)

>

> Don't get me wrong, I love foxes and squirrels but

> .....

The foxes in my garden are quite well-behaved - they don't dig, they just play and sunbathe - I must be lucky!

I've attached a separate squirrel feeder to a tree, they ignore the suet balls - although they do like to swing on my washing line and sometimes pee on the laundry.... I shouted at them and they pelted me with cherry stones and gravel... But I don't mind!

[a fish]

I've mixed chilli powder into the bird seed in my bird feeders; it doesn't affect the birds, and the squirrels hate it. I've also fired an air bazooka at the squirrels, it's hilarious to see them being knocked out of a tree by 'nothing'. When indoors, I've discovered that a laser pointer freaks them out.

The foxes are perfectly well behaved in our garden.

[apbremer]

Squirrels very good casseroled but not much meat on blue tits. A young fox makes at least two pairs of gloves. It is called recycling. Try it~it is Good Fun.

[Townleygreen]

a fish said :I've also fired an air bazooka at the squirrels, it's hilarious to see them being knocked out of a tree by 'nothing'.

this sounds great! where did you get yours? what is its official name please?

[a fish]

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> a fish said :I've also fired an air bazooka at the

> squirrels, it's hilarious to see them being

> knocked out of a tree by 'nothing'.

>

> this sounds great! where did you get yours? what

> is its official name please?

It's this one:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Air-Zooka-Colours-May-Vary/dp/B00009B1SF though I've managed to break it.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Too many foxes digging and pooing in the garden , not fun for the kids.

And the cats ?! Don't cat owners ensure they have a cat litter tray so that their cats doesn't go toilet in their neighbours gardens ? It's really not nice cleaning up cat and fox poo:(

[PeckhamRose]

I also feel very lucky to live here. No garden - though balconies - but across the road is Peckham Rye Park!