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IN OUR GARDENS 2026
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I Am Nico
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I don't know about you but we still have elephants ears in the snow, flowering hyssop trailing in the pot, and a geranium blooming in a pot outside the front door.
I posted last year the bird box fell down. While trying to put it back up, the tree moved, a lot! We had to have it felled or it would have fallen on our barmy neighbour's side. It was rotten all the way through and I can poke down three feet so far, the trunk a birch, is 2/3rds gone like a rotten tooth cavity and it smells bad. Our treeman tells us birches don't like temperature changes and are not long lived. They hate drought then floods. So ours has done well, he thought 40 years maximum lifespan. Have you heard of this?. The birches here are much older than that. I would guess 3 times as old as the residents were not gardeners in the 40s.
The foxes are out and about and the squirrels but no sign of a hedgehog in 2025. If I can work out how to post again I will put my friend's foxes on. She lives not far away. She feeds everything. From rats to gulls, she has 50 flocking gulls including great and lesser black backs which drive off all other birds. She read they are endangered!. I read ....in Scotland. I told her not to feed them as advised by the RSPB plus bird flu and all that., her neighbours are up in arms over their cars and washing. Glad I am not that near. Best wished for 2026. Happy New Year.
I posted last year the bird box fell down. While trying to put it back up, the tree moved, a lot! We had to have it felled or it would have fallen on our barmy neighbour's side. It was rotten all the way through and I can poke down three feet so far, the trunk a birch, is 2/3rds gone like a rotten tooth cavity and it smells bad. Our treeman tells us birches don't like temperature changes and are not long lived. They hate drought then floods. So ours has done well, he thought 40 years maximum lifespan. Have you heard of this?. The birches here are much older than that. I would guess 3 times as old as the residents were not gardeners in the 40s.
The foxes are out and about and the squirrels but no sign of a hedgehog in 2025. If I can work out how to post again I will put my friend's foxes on. She lives not far away. She feeds everything. From rats to gulls, she has 50 flocking gulls including great and lesser black backs which drive off all other birds. She read they are endangered!. I read ....in Scotland. I told her not to feed them as advised by the RSPB plus bird flu and all that., her neighbours are up in arms over their cars and washing. Glad I am not that near. Best wished for 2026. Happy New Year.
Nocturnal visitor. How can I post videos? Mp4 format isn't accepted and .avi is too large
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Post the video to You Tube then post a link here
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Are there any bird experts here who can suggest what attacked my wildlife camera at 9.15 last night. I had it on our upstairs front window for 3 weeks fixed on with a suction pad bracket and safety string, Looking down on our drive, we see a fox every night and a badger occasionally and once a glimpse of a roe deer. The sucker pad holds extremely well as it has a locking tab and then it's hard to get it off!
Yesterday l moved it onto the back window of our sitting room, the view is is of open countryside and we often get wood pigeons bang into the glass so we were shocked last night for a similar very loud thump, l then see the camera hanging by it's string but pointing towards the ground and along the path where the short video shows something flying past very fast indeed, presumably for another look, l managed to pause it but it's a total blur. When the camera is triggered at night the infra red lenses turns red, like a pair of eyes and l guess it was attacked for that reason. But what could it be? We hear owls hooting most nights but can they fly fast?
Yesterday l moved it onto the back window of our sitting room, the view is is of open countryside and we often get wood pigeons bang into the glass so we were shocked last night for a similar very loud thump, l then see the camera hanging by it's string but pointing towards the ground and along the path where the short video shows something flying past very fast indeed, presumably for another look, l managed to pause it but it's a total blur. When the camera is triggered at night the infra red lenses turns red, like a pair of eyes and l guess it was attacked for that reason. But what could it be? We hear owls hooting most nights but can they fly fast?
