Just looking at the photos in a certain newspaper and one was of a hedgehog. Just made me think of wild life that may have been caught out with the floods, frost, and now snow etc.
Would be a good idea to put some scraps of food out for them, especially if you live near a bit of woodland or open space. Its surprising what lives in the hedgerows and grassy banks. Doesn't take much to pop out and throw a bit of waste food for hedgehogs etc rather than put it in the recycling bin.
My OH won't let me do that, he says it encourages rats, which he has phobia of, but we do hang up bird feeders with nuts and seeds, although they are still full after a couple of weeks of being there, so the wildlife must be fairly well fed in this area.
Julia
------------- Just love to be out amoungst Nature and Wildlife
Celebrating 37 years of Caravanning in 2019, Recently Considered Retiring, but Totally Addicted for Life!
Apparently it takes a while for birds to start using a new feeder.
Rats will appear no matter what. We have foxes round here and three or four neighbours put dishes of food up on bricks for them. Its animals like hedgehogs who get confused by the mild weather and go hunting food that are at risk mostly, along with birds.
I get up at 4.30am to take my daughter to work and we regularly see foxes and we live in the middle of a city, they must be hungry to come to these areas looking for food.
There are more foxes in towns and cities than in the countryside now; they are not silly, they know where the easier food opportunities are. We have several just ouside.
We regularly come face to face with foxes on our street....one scared the poop out of me by popping it's head around the corner of the house while I was outside having a cig....don't quite remember who moved the fastest
we have foxes here too, I dont feed them but a family friend feeds them in her garden every night.
we have bird feeders and but fresh water out daily...no hedgehogs here nothing for them to live under (new gardens)
we also make our own food for the birds with lard cranberries dried fruit and meal worms
We have fruit trees in our garden and always leave a few apples and pears on for the birds at the end of the season, the blackbirds love them, and we now have a large extended family of them after they nested in the conifers and Hunisuckle harbour last year, raising about three clutches of eggs.
The KFC near the Wyvern centre in Derby has its own resident foxes who do their own bin emptying duties looking for scraps. They are not shy either, even when cars are parked nearby, and the main A52 is whizzing by behind them, they carry on foriging for bits of chicken, helped by a family of large crows who shread up the papers and packaging looking for anything the foxes leave behind.
Sadly, there are often fatalities on the road from them, especially the young ones, as they try and cross to get into the large cemetary where a lot of them live undisturbed, some using the crumbling Victorian vaults as a den.
My Dad is even luckier, he has a family of badgers visit his field, they live in a local spinney, and come upto his yard looking for spilled peanuts from the birdfeeders, he also feeds them on dogfood when the weather is really bad, which occasionally, the local hedgehogs will come out of the barn for, where they tend to take refuge during the winter,
Julia
------------- Just love to be out amoungst Nature and Wildlife
Celebrating 37 years of Caravanning in 2019, Recently Considered Retiring, but Totally Addicted for Life!
Our poor robin came for its food this morning, and all the feeders were frozen solid, the seeds, peanuts and the fat balls. I hope they defrost a bit later and he comes back for some more.
We have lots of urban foxes & a badger who goes through our garden on the way to the green in the centre of our cul-de-sac. Lovely to watch him snarfling (i wonder if that's a word?) for worms and grubs.
I leave peanut butter sandwiches made from old bread out when it's really bad. Don't get many birds in our garden although the squirrels visit regularly. I've been told that birds won't come in the garden because I have an aviary with green parakeets & budgies.
Snow was a complete surprise near south London yesterday as they hadn't forecast it. All gone now but very icey.
We have foxes too, but we shoot them, they are nasty savage little things
We have hedgehogs wander into the garden room, which fascinates the dogs, hedgehogs like a bit of meat
There's many opportunities for birds as there is always a lot of spilt grain, interestingly magpies come to the garden and peck out the centre of bones that the dogs tongues can't reach, when there's snow we put out extra birdfood
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