Foxy lady

[NorthumBryan]

I'm sitting in the back room talking rubbish on the phone to my mate when this cheeky little lady brazenly strolls across the garden in broad daylight. Definitely a vixen and she nearly came right up to the patio doors. Poor quality I know but it was through double glazing and I was trying not to be seen. She looked in great condition and it didn't look like she'd had too hard a winter.

[Asmith61]

Love that and yes she does look in good condition someone has been feeding her,
 A chap I used to work with dad a few years ago spotted one in his garden and he started putting food out for it, and in the end it became quite tame and use to come in and sit in the kitchen with him, and it also came back with its cubs the year after.

[NorthumBryan]

Nice, I'm reluctant to put food out as we had a rodent of the genus rattus rattus visiting the bird feeders. I put some rat poison down (hidden under rocks & bricks so no birds could get at it) and it seems to have taken the bait, as it were. One of the buggers got into the loft last year and promptly died causing a hell of a stink and then loads of flies. Not pleasant, still not found it's remains yet but it's under the loft insulation somewhere I can't readily get to.

[Asmith61]

We also have a few bird feeders down the garden which also get visited by Rattus
, but what can you do either stop feeding the birds or put up with the Rats !!!!

I got my wife to put one of the bird tables out by the front lounge window so I can see them while I am sitting in my chair with my leg up, mostly visited by song birds so hopefully not Rats out the front 🤞

Don’t like the sound of a rat in the loft though (dead or not ) 

[NorthumBryan]

Great idea putting the feed where you can see it easily  I love to sit and watch the birds come and go but often don't have the time sadly. I did notice yesterday that we've got a pair of Greenfinches back in the garden after about a 3 year absence.

[Asmith61]

We get mostly blue tits out the front, there is also some robins, black birds, jackdaw, & the pigeons are on the floor picking up what falls 

[NorthumBryan]

Nice pics 

[Mick B]

Nice photos. We've got some feeders out the back and a few years ago had a decent number of birds arriving for food but the neighbours (on both sides) decided to cut back some hedging & a few small trees last year, up to now we're struggling to get much but a few Sparrows, the odd Blackbird, the inevitable Pigeons, but, for the last few weeks we've had some Wagtails turn up, never had them before. Oh yeah, a couple of very well fed Squirrels too!!!
Rats have been a problem but I'm quite happy to put poison down, I use those 'bait stations' that other animals and birds can't get to.

[Asmith61]

@ Mick B
These were the feeders down the garden last year, and the galvanised dustbins we came home from work and most days the lid was off on one of them and there was a fat old squirrel in there eating the peanuts and the wild bird seed. I put the lid back on and put a weight on it, and the next day it was off again this went on for a few days and we were wondering how the squirrels were getting the lid off, then one evening I was making a cup of tea and I heard this banging outside so crept out only to see a badger on its hind legs pushing the lid off I wondered if the badger and the squirrels were working as a team 

[NorthumBryan]

Great pics 

[Mick B]

The only badgers I've seen in the last few years are dead ones on the roads.
I'll see if I can sort a few photos of our 'visitors' and post them up.

[Asmith61]

Yes It is such a shame to see the badgers dead on the road.
That will be good mick look forward to seeing them 

[NorthumBryan]

Ditto, not seen one for a while dead or alive ?

[Asmith61]

Our little mate has returned and he has bought some friends with him 😂 I have some video but don’t know how to put it on here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[NorthumBryan]

Crikey, the little tinkers are having a proper party !