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IN OUR GARDENS 2026

Morturn said:
With birds throw a towel over them and wrap them up lightly. The dark settles then down then you can take them into the garden and release. I had a Magpie in the bathroom the other day. How it managed that Im not sure. As I do feed the birds, I do know they will come into the house sometimes so it must have flown up the stairwell and into the bathroom. It was fine when I released it again.
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Good advice but it all happened so fast there was no time to get a towel and the dog was too interested, plus I had a saucepan boiling on the stove.
 
We get them here, but only when it is dark, and they show up on the camera. Sometimes, if we go out to look at the night sky, we can hear them swooping above our heads.
We have an attached spare room, a bit like a garage but with an ordinary door, and no interior access from the house. There is actually an outside door, and an inside door, about 300mm apart one after the other. Some time ago, Julie opened the outside door to go inside, and there was a bat hanging above her head in the gap. The bat departed pronto, and luckily Julie is not fazed by such things, so no screams. (The bat might have screamed, but it would have been above audible range).
We have a shed in the garden with a long roof, but the shed itself only uses half of the roof, the rest is a covered area where the trailer is parked. A lot of small birds sleep perched on the woodwork there, (I can tell by the state of the trailer cover), and we have had a pipistrel bat spend the day there. It didn’t move when we were down there, and was gone the next day.
Bats are very protected here, effectively untouchable wherever they are.
Andrew.
 
They come very close to our patio and if I’m outside it feels like they might swoop down and land on me but luckily they don’t !
When we were in Seville a couple of years back, one evening we saw dozens of them circling above one of the bell towers of the cathedral.
 
My ‘Electric Flash’ Dahlia has finally opened in my garden. Some people might think Dahlias are old fashioned but I think they’re one of the best flowers to have in a garden for repeat flowering.

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