Animals in your garden

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We've got termites. They eat anything wooden. Black ants eat them. One all.
Such is life on the land.

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

I was doing some summer prunning and saw this guy.

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[Oliver Buckle]

our plum tree fruited massively this year, we had a couple of buckets full and had stewed plums and made jam and chutney, but there were masses that got over ripe and fell, or we dropped because birds had pecked them, they littered the floor under the tree. This morning they were all gone, I reckon it was the badger had them, stones and all, bet he had a funny tummy after.

 

[gary350]

our plum tree fruited massively this year, we had a couple of buckets full and had stewed plums and made jam and chutney, but there were masses that got over ripe and fell, or we dropped because birds had pecked them, they littered the floor under the tree. This morning they were all gone, I reckon it was the badger had them, stones and all, bet he had a funny tummy after.

I would love to have 3 gallons of plums to make 6 gallons of wine.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

We have a buddleia, Michaelmas daisy, and Indian berry bush in a row, all covered in insects at the moment. Watched a hornet patrolling them today waiting to pick something off, it eventually had a butterfly.

 

[Loose Screw]

My wife caught a picture of this pup crossing the ditch 2 houses down from me last Easter morning. Even though I live in the city near malls and freeways I have seen deer right behind my house, a fox in my driveway etc etc...Never seen any UFOs or aliens though....

 

[Nili]

Sassy lady! Shooed her many a times. Threw her built house twice. She wants this place alone. Finally laid her eggs
Gave her coir. Pushed them away.

 

[Sheal]

It looks like a Dove @Nili and they are persistent birds.

This is a Collared Dove that we have here in Britain...

 

[Loose Screw]

It looks like a Dove @Nili and they are persistent birds.

This is a Collared Dove that we have here in Britain...

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I got a bunch of doves that look like this in my area...They eat my dogs leftover food. I'll try and get some pix.

 

[Sean Regan]

We get a pair collared doves and three wood pigeons on our patio. We like the doves and can't stand the fat wood pigeons. If they arrive, a magazine thrown at the French windows sees them off.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

This is a Collared Dove that we have here in Britain...

They have spread up through Europe from Turkey and only arrived in Britain in the 1950's

 

[Oliver Buckle]

can't stand the fat wood pigeons

Cabbage eaters, I have cylinders of chicken wire I drop over my cabbages, they are too wary to go down into them.

 

[Loose Screw]

Here's what goes on in my backyard every morning...

I'll learn how to take the Perfect Picture someday.........

 

[Loose Screw]

Mid November Early Morning At The Dog Dish...

 

[Sheal]

Doves and crows - always the greedy ones!