Strange visitors

[CliveW]

I'm no expert Clive, but that might be a Goshawk??

I think we're both wrong. It's a Sparrowhawk. This is a buzzard we had last year....

... And this is a Sparrowhawk.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I think we're both wrong. It's a Sparrowhawk. This is a buzzard we had last year....

... And this is a Sparrowhawk.

One is wee and the other is big.


There's a moose loose aboot this hoose. {occasionally}


I am beginning to find out that fledgling blackbirds have just about as much a desire to kill themselves as pheasants.

 

[CliveW]

One is wee and the other is big.

Aye, but the wee one looked big!

 

[tugglesf239]

Where do you live?

Jumanji?

 

[CliveW]

I must be old, I had to Google Jumanji!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We've been feeding a number of hedgehogs in the garden this year and one managed to find a way through the patio doors onto the mat. Sat there very happily until HID tried to get it out. Fortunately it knew its bearings and scuttled back through the door

 

[clubchamp98]

Had a canary in a cage so we had it by the window one day
Some sort of falcon or bird of prey flew straight into the glass , freighted the life out of me.
It was stunned on the patio but flew away after a while so don’t think it was hurt.
Later on when it was going dark there was a fantastic outline in dust of its feathers silhouetted on the glass.

 

[williamalex1]

Last week we were inundated with ants and baby spiders, all gone now though.:whoo:

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Last week we were inundated with ants and baby spiders, all gone now though.:whoo:

Vinegar mixed 50/50 with water and fine sprayed on the appropriate area does the job for ants.

 

[williamalex1]

Vinegar mixed 50/50 with water and fine sprayed on the appropriate area does the job for ants.

Cheers DFT, looks like they don't like salt either, that's what we used. :thup:

 

[SocketRocket]

What Im I gonna do?

[video=youtube;oLoXFmJBvlk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLoXFmJBvlk[/video]

 

[hors limite]

For reasons beyond me, on a not infrequent basis, sparrows decide to descend the flue into the woodburner. This is signalled by some fluttering and birdy squeaks that provoke the dogs into full repel boarders mode. I then have to open every window, open the stove, bid farewell to the sparrow and clean up all the dust and crap that the bird has spread to every corner of the room whilst trying to stop the dogs from snacking on it as it bounces off every available vertical surface on its way to the great outdoors.
I am an animal lover.Just.

 

[williamalex1]

We get birds crashing into our rear patio door trying to get in, leaving a silhouette splattered on the glass.
They're usually a bit dazed for a while, but always recover.

 

[CliveW]

Birds crash into patio doors and windows because they see the reflection of the sky in them. We regularly have the imprint of pigeons on ours as they panic when the sparrowhawk swoops through the garden.

 

[ColchesterFC]

A few years ago I had a cat that would hunt anything, no matter the size of it. I was woken up one morning by a banging and crashing coming from downstairs. I went down to find my cat coming in through the cat flap backwards with a full grown male pheasant in its mouth.

 

[SaintHacker]

We've been feeding a number of hedgehogs in the garden this year and one managed to find a way through the patio doors onto the mat. Sat there very happily until HID tried to get it out. Fortunately it knew its bearings and scuttled back through the door

Couple of years ago I walked down the garden in the dark and in barefeet, and accidentally kicked a hedgehog that was sat in the middle of our path. Fair to say it hurt me a lot more than it did him!

 

[williamalex1]

Birds crash into patio doors and windows because they see the reflection of the sky in them. We regularly have the imprint of pigeons on ours as they panic when the sparrowhawk swoops through the garden.

I knew that Clive,

 

[williamalex1]

When it's really wet we sometimes get a frog that stands up and peaks in the bottom corner of our patio door. Maybe a prince needing a kiss :rofl:

 

[MegaSteve]

For a number of years we had a hedgehog as a regular visitor...
Haven't seen him/her for a while or any other hedgehog either...

Nowadays we get up to 30 parakeets in her eucalyptus tree at the bottom of the garden...
Ruddy noisy things...

Badgers are regular [along with foxes] visitors to the street...
Probably because one of our dozy neighbours leaves pet food out for them...

 

[Louisa L. Hatfield]

A non-resident cat crawled through my window.