Wildlife Corner

Hi HA,Thankyou for that information.We saw one years ago when we were down on the South Coast and kept away from it because we heard that the sting from one could mean hospital treatment.It was on the floor just inside the door and it seemed quite dozy.I have it in a glass jar at the moment...

Great photo - lovely to witness too

Thankyou wiseoldowl.I will pass on your compliment to mr.fiz.He built it.

Ah, dear me, Geoff! If that's the case the options seem a bit limited.... 1) headphones playing soothing music to drown the b*ggers out... 2) a big fan blowing a gale above your head so's they find it too much like hard work to stick around... or 3) change the aftershave... :D

Great shot woo well done, I used to have one follow me and my dog when we went on our early morning walks, I used to drop dog biscuits for him he was there most mornings.

I quite like Bill. Sure he can be a bit silly but he does know his stuff, well about birds anyway. He was perhaps better when he did some programmes that were specifically about birds. He is naturally enthusiastic and I think that shows, I can put up with his faults. On Gardeners World I am sure...

Yes you should always take the mesh off the fat balls. I put mine in a sort of wire basket. You can buy them as a sort of green plastic coated open basket. You can then either buy a big fat ball or bags of the little ones. It certainly seems to be the favourite food in our garden. Do the birds...

Great, as it's not easy to photograph a woodpecker. We often hear one but rarely see it, seems to be just the one, a green one. Your black and white one is very pretty.

I think that they are lovely pictures

Hi tiggs`n`oscar photo no 1 is a plain and simple cricket watching me watching him.Pleased you like it

Hi Pal,sorry I didn't realise that everything was ok with your birds up until your holiday.As you say though it does seem strange unless the parents were predated and the chicks died of the cold.It does seem starnge though that only a few of the chicks were taken.Oh well better luck next year.I...

Fran's gorn orf... on hols for three weeks roughing it in the Mobile Home, I think!!! So we're ALL still on them tenterhookey things!Oops... think I meant MOTOR Home.....!!! Dear me.... must be incipient Old Timer's Disease!!! [ 26. May 2007, 08:22 AM: Message edited by: Hyla arborea ]

Thanks Sunshine, looking forward to our visit.

It's a trap! There's two of them!!

Hyla, Hyla, Hyla!!!What is your sense of humour like? :DTO

Thanks for the reply strongylodon, started to think maybe I had imagined it, although the sighting has not yet been confirmed your comments ad weight to the possibility of it having been one.

what a cute picture :D

Managed to persuade two of the fledglings into the front garden where there is lots of cover - just one left, and he at the moment is sitting in branches. Parents are feeding all three. All my other birds tits etc, fly straight from the nest - but every year the blackbird fledglings come out of...

Hi ,i think it is a "Harris Hawk", but not 100% sure!

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