Wildlife in your Garden

[kev]

Hanging up an owl house this weekend. Hope to get an owl but I'm sure it will turn into a squirrels nest.

Are you putting a box up outside, or is it one for positioning inside an outbuilding such as a shed or garage etc?

 

[COYBL25]

Are you putting a box up outside, or is it one for positioning inside an outbuilding such as a shed or garage etc?

Really good point, as Barn Owls will use indoor boxes solely for roosting, as well as nesting.

 

[JohnRoss23]

You`re better off holding off and putting it up in the Autumn, when this years chicks will have fully fledged and will be looking for their own territories.

If you put it up now, all you`re likely to get is Stock Doves or as you say Squirrels.

I will wait for the Autumn!

 

[JohnRoss23]

Are you putting a box up outside, or is it one for positioning inside an outbuilding such as a shed or garage etc?

Going to put high up into a tree.

 

[kev]

Going to put high up into a tree.

Some good advice here - https://www.homesandgardens.com/gar...shield it from drafts and rain,' Roberto says.

 

[COYBL25]

Saw a Red Kite this morning swirling around on the the thermals over Allerton Golf Course.

I’m assuming it’ll be a juvenile from last year, as it’s peak breeding season and to the best of my knowledge, they aren’t nesting around here yet !

 

[kev]

Saw a Red Kite this morning swirling around on the the thermals over Allerton Golf Course.

I’m assuming it’ll be a juvenile from last year, as it’s peak breeding season and to the best of my knowledge, they aren’t nesting around here yet !

I saw a small group of Lapwings in the field where I walk the dog this morning. I was made up to see them, but then felt sad as I can remember as a child (60 years ago) in that same field regularly seeing huge flocks of them. (We called them Peewits when I was a kid)
Googled them when I got home and found that they are now 'red listed' and numbers have dropped by 50% in the last 40 years alone mainly due to pesticides and other changes in farming practices.

 

[COYBL25]

I saw a small group of Lapwings in the field where I walk the dog this morning. I was made up to see them, but then felt sad as I can remember as a child (60 years ago) in that same field regularly seeing huge flocks of them. (We called them Peewits when I was a kid)
Googled them when I got home and found that they are now 'red listed' and numbers have dropped by 50% in the last 40 years alone mainly due to pesticides and other changes in farming practices.

So so many have all but gone the same way.

Yellow Hammers and Skylark used to be everywhere.

I still see the odd skylark, but haven’t seen a yellow hammer in decades

 

[kev]

So so many have all but gone the same way.

Yellow Hammers and Skylark used to be everywhere.

I still see the odd skylark, but haven’t seen a yellow hammer in decades

Still get Yellowhammers in the garden now and again, though obviously not as frequent as they were.
Definite decline in Skylarks though.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

So so many have all but gone the same way.

Yellow Hammers and Skylark used to be everywhere.

I still see the odd skylark, but haven’t seen a yellow hammer in decades

North east coast you still see plenty sky larks. The dune land there is good habitat for them.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I saw a small group of Lapwings in the field where I walk the dog this morning.

A Deceit of lapwings is the collective noun. We called them Peewits as well so must have been a thing.

 

[kev]

North east coast you still see plenty sky larks. The dune land there is good habitat for them.

Think I need some new more powerful binoculars

 

[Yarrgh]

A Deceit of lapwings is the collective noun. We called them Peewits as well so must have been a thing.

I still call them peewits. When did they stop getting called peewits?

 

[COYBL25]

Mate just sent me this - Mossley Hill Peregrines Alice and well.

 

[jazzy]

Found a baby badger in the garden this week. Badger rescue can and took it away and looking for it's set