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  Grey squirrels and young birds visit the garden

  Miranda Hodgson on 02 Jul 2012 at 11:17 AM

  Grey squirrels ( Sciurus carolinensis ) visit the garden regularly – there is plenty of wild food for them here – nuts, fruit and seeds. The growing number of tree peony ( Paeonia lutea ) seedlings springing up in the lawn is the result of their burying the seeds, though whether they come back and eat... Read More...

  Comments: 2 Tags: wildlife, bird food, wild birds, wildlife habitat, great spotted woodpeckers, Turdus merula, blackbirds, apples, garden bird behaviour, young birds, Dendrocopos major, grey squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis
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  More blackbirds have discovered the dog food

  Miranda Hodgson on 30 May 2011 at 01:20 PM

  More blackbirds have now realised that a little tray of dog food appears in the courtyard each day and have been taking full advantage of it. We have gone from only a couple of birds to two sets of parents and their chicks, who arrive early each morning to take breakfast. Dog food isn’t as good as worms... Read More...

  Comments: 3 Tags: wildlife, bird food, wild birds, wildlife habitat, Turdus merula, blackbirds, apples, bluetit, feeding dog food to birds, young birds
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  Apples for blackbirds and an update on the wasps

  Miranda Hodgson on 05 Jul 2010 at 10:01 AM

  I keep bits of food in my gardening bag – apples, cereal bars, biscuits – and they mingle with the tools. Accidents happen; one of the apples got speared on the little gardening fork, a fork covered in soil. It had also been bruised and didn’t look very appetising anymore, so I cut it in half and put... Read More...

  Comments: 5 Tags: wildlife, bird food, wild birds, wildlife habitat, nesting sites, nesting material, blackbirds, Vespula vulgaris, apples