Animals in your garden

[Sheal]

May be not where you are Gary but we can buy them here.

 

[pepper]

I had to buy a new radio a few months ago because my old one stopped working. It has Bluetooth but it's still just a radio. I never listen to music on it, or rarely. I use it at night to help me sleep.. I put on radio static at night lol. I've tried white noise machines but they never last I find. I never thought about using it in the garden to scare away critters but I can see that working. Just play some of that ear bleeding techno music crap lol!

 

[Chuck]

I had to buy a new radio a few months ago because my old one stopped working. It has Bluetooth but it's still just a radio. I never listen to music on it, or rarely. I use it at night to help me sleep.. I put on radio static at night lol. I've tried white noise machines but they never last I find. I never thought about using it in the garden to scare away critters but I can see that working. Just play some of that ear bleeding techno music crap lol!

Deer and other critters get used to even Ghetto Rap.

 

[pepper]

Deer and other critters get used to even Ghetto Rap.

I'm sure you can find much worse then that in 2023 that would cause most things with ears to run away screaming for it to stop lol.

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

I used to hate these guys and chase them away with my kids. Not anymore since I put up deer netting.

MOD

 

[gary350]

I used to hate these guys and chase them away with my kids. Not anymore since I put up deer netting.

MOD

Put a radio in the garden, tune it to a loud all night talk show. Connect radio to a $15 Walmart motion detector. When animals come radio blasts out with very loud talking, animal run away.

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

Put a radio in the garden, tune it to a loud all night talk show. Connect radio to a $15 Walmart motion detector. When animals come radio blasts out with very loud talking, animal run away.

ROFLMAO!

You just reminded me of my motion detector water scarecrow back in my early days. They worked great for the deer but the racoons and possum still had their buffet.

https://www.amazon.com/COSTWAY-Scarecrow-Motion-Activated-Repellent/dp/B01MF8Y2O4

MOD

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

I was harvesting gooseberries and noticed this bug looking at me. After a lillte research it is a click beatle. Those eyes are fake like I orginally thought. Seems to be beneficial and rare. They eat tree borers larvae. Tree borers are in the process of killing my peach and nectarine tree. Hope to see more and I will move it onto my infected trees. Nature taking its coarse.

MOD

 

[pepper]

I was harvesting gooseberries and noticed this bug looking at me. After a lillte research it is a click beatle. Those eyes are fake like I orginally thought. Seems to be beneficial and rare. They eat tree borers larvae. Tree borers are in the process of killing my peach and nectarine tree. Hope to see more and I will move it onto my infected trees. Nature taking its coarse.

MOD

Off topic but I seen a YouTube video a while back where someone put a bunch of those in a mason jar. I am guessing maybe 50 but I don't know. Anyway it was funny because each time one would flop and click it made others do it. So they were all flopping around clicking in the jar and it looked exactly like pop corn popping lol!

 

[redback]

A koala is rarely seen here. This one only stayed a day.

 

[pepper]

A koala is rarely seen here. This one only stayed a day.

That is awesome! Is it true they are vicious if you get too close? Maybe that isn't the right word but unfriendly. Someone told me that but they look way too mellow lol.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

A jackdaw caught a mouse under the bird table today and flew off with it. A baby rabbit has started appearing in the back garden.

 

[redback]

No they are shy. Some aussie joker invented the 'dropbear' myth about a koala-like creature that kept dropping out of trees onto tourists.

 

[redback]

This tiny (3"long) little skink has come inside. I believe they live in abandoned spider holes in the ground.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Quite a day for fauna yesterday. The missus saw a weasel, or maybe a stoat, cross the back lawn, cue for Dad joke, "A weasel is weasily wrecognised, a stoat is stoatally different." We established it was a weasel.
Picked up a plastic sack with a bit of rubbish in it down the end of the garden, and discovered it also had a hornet's nest in it, retreated rapidly. European hornets, I will just let them get on with it.
It was also flying ant day, they were under the back step and we had the door open, sun room full of ants briefly.