Wildlife in your Garden

[RAFUH]

Not wildlife but I don't know where else you'd put these and they slightly related (gardens). Cacti are blooming right now here in AZ. There are two different Echinopsis varieties, both are small pups so the flowers are bigger than they are. Have 3 other colour varieties but they haven't popped yet. Most people don't even know you can get flowers on cacti with this much colour variety but it's been done over time by a handful of enthusiasts that crossbred. The last two I don't remember, got them both from Home Depot in those little $3 pots. Figured @LinekersLegs might like to see them...probably find out she hates cactus. @Joey66 might be interested too, since he's all up in that xeriscape lifestyle.

The botanical garden in Phoenix is beautiful in the spring

 

[Catfish Blues]

Female Blackbird, with a beak full of worms, on its way to its nest in the hedge which is full of chicks.

Your fascia board needs a lick of paint mate !




Blackbirds are ace btw, we've had a pair nesting in our hedge for three or four years now, and I'm still impressed when they feel threatened by something and play dead on the lawn with their wings spread out, which totally confuses the neighbourhood moggies.

Wasn't so great the other week when the mother threw a dead chick out of the nest and I had to tidy up after her though, scruffy bitch.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Had a small walk today round mine and don’t think I’ve seen so many birds. Swallows, blackbirds, goldfinch, blue tits, song thrush and a majestic couple of bullfinch. Think the mild winter and warm spring has caused a boom. Tonnes of goldfinches and Thrushes in particular. Can’t beat this time of year.

 

[Paulie]

Don't know mate but there's 2p on the floor there so that's a bonus.

I've heard rats prefer money to cheese.

 

[kev]

Rat hole?

Hard to tell from the picture, but It looks to be out in the open.
Rats are much more likely to tunnel up against something such as a rock or tree roots etc. It's also unlikely to be a rat unless there are other holes nearby.

 

[nosejam]

Found a load of baby spiders this morning, amazing how quickly they have appeared given I was working on that pot yesterday and there was no sign of them at all

 

[BNJ1878]

Sh1t load of cockatoos, frequent kookaburras, regular bin chickens and a couple of rats most evenings.

I have to ask mate. What is a 'Bin Chicken`?

Just a regular chicken the pecks and scratches around the bins, or something more exotic?

 

[nosejam]

I have to ask mate. What is a 'Bin Chicken`?

Just a regular chicken the pecks and scratches around the bins, or something more exotic?

I think he's referring to the Ibis

 

[WA Toffee]

I have to ask mate. What is a 'Bin Chicken`?

Just a regular chicken the pecks and scratches around the bins, or something more exotic?

I think he's referring to the Ibis

Yep, thats the one

 

[Paulie]

Yep, thats the one

I remember me and my mate having a coffee on our lunch break. An ibis [Poor language removed] from a tree above and it hit his coffee lid and splashed all over his white shirt

 

[BNJ1878]

Ahhhh right. They were all over the hotel grounds in Queensland, thought they looked quite nice haha.

 

[carlos21]

Ahhhh right. They were all over the hotel grounds in Queensland, thought they looked quite nice haha.

Good evening mate how are you doing today.

 

[BNJ1878]

Good evening mate how are you doing today.

All good thanks Carlos, what about you? What have you been up to today?

 

[carlos21]

All good thanks Carlos, what about you? What have you been up to today?

Nothing much really.

 

[BNJ1878]

Nothing much really.

Same here, sorted out a few drawers of junk, bit of telly.