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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


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Lemonella that is strange. I was going to comment that it’s a bit early for butterflies…
I’ve just been sitting in a sunny spot in our garden pondering the mysteries of life haha
The next minute a butterfly landed on my shoulder. It must have been there for about 3 minutes…
 
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
 
johnny082 said:
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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I put one safe box with 3 or 4 in. Then I moved it. Partner saw the rat looking under stones and it was in the thyme pot and the chives. Web said thoroughly wash the herbs. One of my birth family died from rat poison. He had a silly habit of picking up cigarette buts and smoking them, they were not poor folk either. I am surprised though as my ex boss and his wife got very ill, but not Fatally, they ate salad from the corner shop grown in an allotment, with rat or chicken faeces. Maybe it was chickens? They were both terribly ill and their young daughter cared for them. .The toughie cats are still around the rat was a middle sized one. My ex colleague cares for anything and she has just raised 10 rat lettes? to be released, she sent me a video I said you can keep them. They are cute admittedly but they are rats. I detest them but then I think all creatures great and small the Lord God loved them all. I don't know.
 
Smudger said:
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?
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Get a few here
my Old 1972 .22 BSA Meteor
does the Job
 
lmr3103 said:
Lemonella that is strange. I was going to comment that it’s a bit early for butterflies…
I’ve just been sitting in a sunny spot in our garden pondering the mysteries of life haha
The next minute a butterfly landed on my shoulder. It must have been there for about 3 minutes…
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Wow that was lucky! Does it mean something, I wonder? What type was it? There have been a lot of tiny blue ones, but not the usual big ones such as tortoiseshell, peacock, etc.
 
Donbogen said:
Get a few here
my Old 1972 .22 BSA Meteor
does the Job
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We had one a few years ago, found holes which we filled and put citronella around, as they hate that. They are not nice to have in your garden but I suppose the bird feed attracts them. We always feed the birds.
 
I Am Nico said:
I put one safe box with 3 or 4 in. Then I moved it. Partner saw the rat looking under stones and it was in the thyme pot and the chives. Web said thoroughly wash the herbs. One of my birth family died from rat poison. He had a silly habit of picking up cigarette buts and smoking them, they were not poor folk either. I am surprised though as my ex boss and his wife got very ill, but not Fatally, they ate salad from the corner shop grown in an allotment, with rat or chicken faeces. Maybe it was chickens? They were both terribly ill and their young daughter cared for them. .The toughie cats are still around the rat was a middle sized one. My ex colleague cares for anything and she has just raised 10 rat lettes? to be released, she sent me a video I said you can keep them. They are cute admittedly but they are rats. I detest them but then I think all creatures great and small the Lord God loved them all. I don't know.
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I suppose they have to survive as best they can, as long as they don't come into our gardens!
 
lmr3103 said:
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!
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I had heard that they growl and they can deliver a nasty bite too!
 
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