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IN OUR GARDENS 2026

We usually get a few they are reluctant to fly. Not seen any this year. Not many insets at all. Saw a big wasp. Not many bees other than hover flies it is worrying, quite a few butterflies though.
 
If you want to see wasps, go to Coles Lane Sutton Coldfield, house before the gully to Ebrook Rd - there is a HUGE wasps next hanging out of the tree with about 3 gazillion wasps flying around it. Big enough for me and the dogs to cross to the other side of the road yesterday!
 
Mark Tooze said:
If you want to see wasps, go to Coles Lane Sutton Coldfield, house before the gully to Ebrook Rd - there is a HUGE wasps next hanging out of the tree with about 3 gazillion wasps flying around it. Big enough for me and the dogs to cross to the other side of the road yesterday!
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had that been me mark i would have turned round and headed back up the lane :D :D :D


lyn
 
We have some really nasty squirrels in our garden at the moment. I’m usually quite accommodating to them but yesterday one made a kind of growling noise at me when I moved a coconut half it was devouring!
 
I`ve been having an unwelcome visitor for several days now.... a rat. It`s not afraid to show itself during the day, i watched it climb up a dwarf cherry tree & leap across onto the bird table for a good munch. I`ve since moved the cherry tree but it`s still hunting around under the bird feeders. I`ve hidden 20 poison bait blocks around the garden (safely) so hopefully that will get rid of it. I know there is a reason for everything but rats really?
 
We recently had the same problem Smudger. Hadn't seen one for a few years but got a new neighbour moving in and she had someone digging out the "forest" that developed after old neighbour died. I bought a box of 30 blocks, hiding so that only Roland could get at them - took 3 of them before there was no signs of it returning
 
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