Wildlife in your backyard
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nanoboy
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Awesome pics! Technically is does count as wildlife in your backyard.
Sulphur crested cockatoos are amongst my favourite parrots. I fed my backyard visitors yesterday. That looks like a pretty posh place in Lorne. It must have been freezing this weekend, no? I heard on news that there was snow in the Otways on Saturday.
Awesome pics! Technically is does count as wildlife in your backyard.
Same. I never appreciate just how big they are until they're eating raisin toast out of your hand. The king parrots were something new though
The benefit of having rich friends
We stay there for free a couple of times a year. And it was seriously cold. We stayed inside and played boardgames most of the time.
Maisie
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We've had a new visitor for the past week or so. We'd been wondering what had dug up the garden and trampled and eaten my sweetcorn plants. I didn't think it was a fox (they're not usually mad on sweetcorn!) and as far as I know were-rabbits don't actually exist, so we set up a camera to find out if the only other realistic alternative was actually the case. And it was!
CambsVet
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Im very jealous of all the amazing wildlife people have in their gardens!
In my garden at home we get the usual British stuff.... Hedgehogs, Squirels(Rare), Blackbirds, Sparrows, Starlings, Wood Pigeons, Collard Doves, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits(Rare), Robins, Gold finches, Sparrow hawks(Rare), Crows, Magpies and Ive seen one Siskin. I keep Chickens which free range so most of the local bird population comes to my garden to eat the chickens food. We also put out quite alot of bird food in various feeders.
In the college gardens where I live in Cambridge we also get alot of Green woodpeckers, feral pigeons, Yellow wagtails and Pied wagtails and random mallards.Im sure there are some more rarities but I have never had a good view of the gardens from my room. There is also a bat roost nearby as they are always flying about.
In my garden at home we get the usual British stuff.... Hedgehogs, Squirels(Rare), Blackbirds, Sparrows, Starlings, Wood Pigeons, Collard Doves, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits(Rare), Robins, Gold finches, Sparrow hawks(Rare), Crows, Magpies and Ive seen one Siskin. I keep Chickens which free range so most of the local bird population comes to my garden to eat the chickens food. We also put out quite alot of bird food in various feeders.
In the college gardens where I live in Cambridge we also get alot of Green woodpeckers, feral pigeons, Yellow wagtails and Pied wagtails and random mallards.Im sure there are some more rarities but I have never had a good view of the gardens from my room. There is also a bat roost nearby as they are always flying about.
nanoboy
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No that is as 'on topic' as you can get!! Cool!
back garden wildlife in Essex UK
It's funny how the ordinary and mundane can be transformed in to the exotic just by moving around the globe, I recall visiting a British friend in 1996 who was lecturing for a year at Ohio state university and staying in Bowling Green Ohio, and being blown away by the blue jays and the cardinals as well as the funny looking rabbits.
Closer to home my parents are fascinated by the flocks of sparrows and starlings we have on our bird feeders,as they don't ever see them now on tyneside, and they live on the edge of town not city centre.
For the record I have a list of over 30 birds species we feed or have fed in the 10 years we have lived in this new build house. to be fair we live in a very small village surrounded by farmland and though our neighbors do feed the birds we seem to be the ones with the constantly replenished feeders and depleted bank account.
the list comprises
Wood pigeons ornamental pigeons* and racing pigeons * Collard doves starlings house & tree sparrows, Song and Misttle thrush, Green/ Gold & Chaff finches, blackbird, robin, fieldfare redwing, brambeling, great/blue/longtailed and coal tits jay, magpie, great spotted woodpecker ,greenwoodpecker, gold crest(very rare) wren dunnick,house martin, nested once never returned but fly over head. moorhen, black cap, red legged partridge, crow, rook, spotted fly catcher. (who hung around the buddlias eating the butterflies despite my effort to chase it off.) Little Owl, sparrow hawk, and tawny owl.
Mammals include
Hedgehogs2-3 per night grey squirrel, brown rat (not any more) bats rabbits bank vole shrews and field vole. and a fox who hasn't been back since our rabbits died last year.
also grass snakes and slow worms, common toad and frog (not so many now the snakes have found them) great crested newts and smooth newts,
I also have a list of butterflies and moths but didn't think they would count.
It's funny how the ordinary and mundane can be transformed in to the exotic just by moving around the globe, I recall visiting a British friend in 1996 who was lecturing for a year at Ohio state university and staying in Bowling Green Ohio, and being blown away by the blue jays and the cardinals as well as the funny looking rabbits.
Closer to home my parents are fascinated by the flocks of sparrows and starlings we have on our bird feeders,as they don't ever see them now on tyneside, and they live on the edge of town not city centre.
For the record I have a list of over 30 birds species we feed or have fed in the 10 years we have lived in this new build house. to be fair we live in a very small village surrounded by farmland and though our neighbors do feed the birds we seem to be the ones with the constantly replenished feeders and depleted bank account.
the list comprises
Wood pigeons ornamental pigeons* and racing pigeons * Collard doves starlings house & tree sparrows, Song and Misttle thrush, Green/ Gold & Chaff finches, blackbird, robin, fieldfare redwing, brambeling, great/blue/longtailed and coal tits jay, magpie, great spotted woodpecker ,greenwoodpecker, gold crest(very rare) wren dunnick,house martin, nested once never returned but fly over head. moorhen, black cap, red legged partridge, crow, rook, spotted fly catcher. (who hung around the buddlias eating the butterflies despite my effort to chase it off.) Little Owl, sparrow hawk, and tawny owl.
Mammals include
Hedgehogs2-3 per night grey squirrel, brown rat (not any more) bats rabbits bank vole shrews and field vole. and a fox who hasn't been back since our rabbits died last year.
also grass snakes and slow worms, common toad and frog (not so many now the snakes have found them) great crested newts and smooth newts,
I also have a list of butterflies and moths but didn't think they would count.
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Maisie
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Our badger has been joined by a fox. The two do NOT get on. Check out Mr Angry Badger chasing the fox round the garden!
Badger + fox cam - YouTube
Badger + fox cam - YouTube
After seeing 2 or 3 deer everyday for the past week, I saw 7 today.
WildlifeGirl89
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Ok here is my list living in a rural suburb of Darwin, Australia:
Agile Wallaby
Northern Brown Bandicoot
Northern Brushtail Possum
Black Flying Fox
Unknown rat species
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Imperial Pigeon
Radjah Shelduck
Blue-winged Kookaburra
Partridge Pigeon
Red-collared Lorikeet
Bush-stone Curlew
Darwin Carpet Python
Olive Python
Children's Python
Taipan
Western Brown Snake
Black Whip Snake
Cane Toad (not native, but unfortunately common)
Green Tree Frog
Agile Wallaby
Northern Brown Bandicoot
Northern Brushtail Possum
Black Flying Fox
Unknown rat species
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Imperial Pigeon
Radjah Shelduck
Blue-winged Kookaburra
Partridge Pigeon
Red-collared Lorikeet
Bush-stone Curlew
Darwin Carpet Python
Olive Python
Children's Python
Taipan
Western Brown Snake
Black Whip Snake
Cane Toad (not native, but unfortunately common)
Green Tree Frog
nanoboy
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Man, that's a lot of snakes to be found in your backyard! I assume that you live on acreage?