[crosseyedsheep]

Last house I was living in I had a few interesting visitors apart from the normal birds:

Cock Phesent (regular visitor)
Hen Phesent with chicks
Hedgehog
3 wild boar Not joking, they made it on to the news a few weeks later, I got some camea footage as proof. I suspect they were actually owned by someone locally though.

So far in the house I'm living in now I saw either a pinemartin or stoat early one morning, it was just getting bright so it was too dark to tell which.

[squire1]

The last place I was in (Housing Estate) had a pea-cock and pea-hen as regular visitors. The novely quickly wore off as I realised the size of their "deposits". They also ate evey new shoot that came up in the garden. In the end we had to complain to the owners as they were causing such a nuisance. Smelly feckers.

Curently (House in country) I have two rabbits that greet me every morning, a family of foxes in the field behind, bats, mink (around the river, not very plesant animals) phesant and hares. Oh, and twenty three bullocks.

[crosseyedsheep]

[GPI]

No pinemartins, stoats or BOARS here.

Within the garden we have a multitude of birds visiting..... sparrows, finches, robins, wrens, wood pigeons and wagtails.
The soffit and fachsia at the front of my house is to be replaced shortly as it is old and broken in places, at the moment we have (or should still have) a nest of coal tits in one of the cavities. Sure we'll let them bang away for a while more as long as they keep the noise down.

In the fields around my house we have sheep, cattle, donkeys, horses,foxes, pheasants, rabbits and hares.
None of these ever enter the garden though because of Bobby, our long haired German shepard..........



All the birds love Bobby as ......
1/ He never really bothers with them, except for the larger birds like crows, starlings etc.
2/ He provides loads of great long hair for the birds nest building. This hair is to be found all around the garden.

[Tessa]

Here I have lots of cardinals, goldfinches, wrens, thrashers, and some other very little grey birds that I haven't yet identified. Also many many different kinds of woodpeckers, including several pairs of pileated woodpeckers. It's great when a bunch of them get to drumming on the big dead hollow trees in the woods. Makes me feel like dancing. And I love their call....sounds like they're laughing. Lots of crows that entertain me endlessly with their antics. A few shy ravens as well. Most recently, a red-shouldered hawk has come to live in the woods. Some logging nearby destroyed her habitat, I think. It was also about that time that there was an invasion of squirrels that ate every single one of my cherries, and even ate all the apples before I could get even one of them.

As for critters....some very colourful snakes, lizards and salamanders in the most electric colours, possums, raccoons, and lots of deer who made naughty pests of themselves this year chomping on my daylily shoots. A little spray made of rotten eggs and garlic took care of that little annoyance. Lots of bunnies, but they've never ever bothered with anything in the garden. I have caught a box turtle or two munching on tomatoes that are close to the ground. They love them.