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36 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

I do have one problem you might be able to help with.

 

A couple of the local magpies have worked out how to perch on the bird feeders; I don't mind feeding them but they can empty one in a couple of hours. Any ideas how to deter them?

 

Nasty things ...     Eat so many eggs and young chicks every year ...    

 

So in answer to your question ...   Yep, I know how to deter them ...   But doubt you will do that Bucey ...   :ph34r:

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40 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

I do have one problem you might be able to help with.

 

A couple of the local magpies have worked out how to perch on the bird feeders; I don't mind feeding them but they can empty one in a couple of hours. Any ideas how to deter them?

Could put a cage on them. Or some sort of disk near the top of the feeder so the magpie can't get under it because he or she are too big?

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25 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

 

Nasty things ...     Eat so many eggs and young chicks every year ...    

 

It's just nature, CF - magpies doing what they've evolved to do.

 

23 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Could put a cage on them. Or some sort of disk near the top of the feeder so the magpie can't get under it because he or she are too big?

 

I'm not sure either would work, tbh - they are already made in such a way that by rights magpies shouldn't be able to hang on them, but they're clever buggers.

 

I'll post some photos of the feeders tomorrow, and see if the collective mind of FT can come up with something.

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I get the hedgehog love as well ... cute little creatures and often see them on my lawn at night.

Seen countless dead hedgehogs on the road but never a dead magpie ... far too clever.

Interesting story when fishing big artificial lures for marlin in Gran Canaria.

There were several schools of dolphin in the area and I said to the skipper ... I bet

you must have hooked a few dolphins over the years on these lures ... he said

in 20 years of fishing there he'd never heard of one dolphin taking a lure

.... he said their intelligence made them see they were not natural prey both in look and the way they were moving.

 

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A friend of mine used to leave food out in his garden for the foxes. He showed me some film he shot on his phone of a fox and a hedgehog next to each other eating the food. I told him to put it on youtube but he never did.

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11 hours ago, lgfualol said:

I would never go into the garden again if I saw a snake there. 

 

Haven't got a garden where I live but I live close-by to some forests and fields with a bunch of things, including beavers. 

If you go to a forest near where that Radio Leicester couple lived, I think you will see both beavers and snakes 

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I very nearly drove over a hedgehog a couple of weeks back late at night when I noticed that what I thought was a paper bag being blown slowly across the road was moving a bit funny.

 

Today I have been removing a sumac infestation from my lawn and borders. I had no idea where all those little plants were coming from, and it turns out they're all joined together.

 

I made a right mess

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Just now, Buce said:

 

Maybe bananas, too...

 

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And beans, lettuce (iceberg and little gem), and raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, potatoes, onions, spring onions, chard, cabbage, beetroot, ..... 

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1 minute ago, Countryfox said:

 

And beans, lettuce (iceberg and little gem), and raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, potatoes, onions, spring onions, chard, cabbage, beetroot, ..... 

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Ok.

 

You win. lol

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1 minute ago, Countryfox said:

And courgettes, aubergines, tomatoes, cucumbers, and chillies ....

 

 

 

 

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My missus will be so envious.

 

Me? I'm more interested in seeing your weed crop..

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2 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

My missus will be so envious.

 

Me? I'm more interested in seeing your weed crop..

 

Hang on, hang on ...    I haven't finished yet  ...    apples, pears, cherries, any herb you can think of, chickens, freezer full of venison, and a few solar panels ...

 

Its like the bloody Good Life with Tom and Barbara here Bucey ...   :)

 

(sorry don't do weeds) ...

 

 

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Just now, Countryfox said:

 

Hang on, hang on ...    I haven't finished yet  ...    apples, pears, cherries, any herb you can think of, chickens, freezer full of venison, and a few solar panels ...

 

Its like the bloody Good Life with Tom and Barbara here Bucey ...   :)

 

(sorry don't do weeds) ...

 

 

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I'm really impressed and more than a little jealous.

 

You must own half of South Leicestershire to plant that lot.

 

I wouldn't be able to resist a weed patch, though. :)

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1 minute ago, Buce said:

 

I'm really impressed and more than a little jealous.

 

You must own half of South Leicestershire to plant that lot.

 

I wouldn't be able to resist a weed patch, though. :)

 

Got a deal with the rabbits ...     if they leave the crops they can eat the weeds ....    if they ever get it wrong they end up in the freezer ...  :)

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14 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

 

Hang on, hang on ...    I haven't finished yet  ...    apples, pears, cherries, any herb you can think of, chickens, freezer full of venison, and a few solar panels ...

 

Its like the bloody Good Life with Tom and Barbara here Bucey ...   :)

 

(sorry don't do weeds) ...

Well which is it?

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2 hours ago, Buce said:

 

Could be a good year for olives:

 

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We have an olive tree in a big pot but the fruit never gets big enough to eat.

 

Edit: Mrs Para says you can't eat them anyway.

 

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45 minutes ago, Parafox said:

We have an olive tree in a big pot but the fruit never gets big enough to eat.

 

Edit: Mrs Para says you can't eat them anyway.

 

 

We had loads last year.

 

Why does Mrs Para say that? :huh:

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1 hour ago, Buce said:

 

Do you get long-tailed tits on your feeders, @Countryfox?

 

I've never seen them before but we appear to have attracted a flock of them this morning. Queueing up they are.

Get several types of tit but haven't seen many of the long tailed ones.  Get plenty of finches too and a few Great spotted woodpeckers that woof the nuts down in minutes ..

 

Will have to get a few pics when I get a minute ...

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1 minute ago, Countryfox said:

Get several types of tit but haven't seen many of the long tailed ones.  Get plenty of finches too and a few Great spotted woodpeckers that woof the nuts down in minutes ..

 

Will have to get a few pics when I get a minute ...

 

Yeah, pics are good.

 

We get a woodpecker, too, but it's the green one.

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