WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN

[chas2008]

its amazing what you can see in your own garden when you take the time to look, during a couple of hours on Sunday observing the bird feeders i spotted-
Blue Tits,Great Tits,Long Tailed tits,Greenfinchs,chafinchs,robins,sparrows,th
rush,blackbirds,starlings,collared
doves,magpies & crows !!!

[daffy654]

We only have a small yard with narrow raised flower beds down each side :(

We do get a huge variety of butterflies and bees in high summer though due to our 4 enormous buddleia bushes.

[sandyRoe]

A Jay comes sometimes. I once saw a bird slightly bigger than a pigeon sitting on the lawn with its wings spread out and its head bobbing up and down. It was a hawk and it was eating one of the Starlings. Nature red in tooth and claw.

[rowanwitch]

Add woodpeckers greater and lesser spotted, nuthatch, treecreeper, goldfinch, wren, dunnock, and unfortunately the occasional visit from a sparrowhawk, hedgehogs, foxes, frogs and common newts dragonflies, butterflies(buddliea bushes x5) all in a Birmingham suburban garden. We also hear tawny owls at night but haven't seen them

In the winter we also had Redwings and a couple of fieldfares as well as a grey heron trying to get to the goldfish

I am lucky as there are big trees, oak and ash in the neighbours gardens and I have the flowering food plants and 2 ponds,one ornamental and one proper wildlife pond. I even allow nettles to grow at the back so butterflies can breed as well as feed I also have loads of feeding stations, bird tables and a big bird bath and while my garden is designed to be wildlife friendly it has a lovely cottage garden feel....I love my garden you can tell can't you...

I only wish the house martins that fly in the area would nest under our eaves, and I also wish we had more bats in the area am looking into putting up bat boxes to encourage them.

[chas2008]

we also have hedgehogs , foxes and squirrels...

[tamborine]

Had an owl stalking me for past month but its sadly disappeared today

[bobjugs12]

I haven't got a garden. But I found a dead moth in my Yucca a couple of days ago