Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: Growster... on July 06, 2019, 20:39
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How about a list of all the wildlife in our gardens or allotments!
I'll start, but everyone can pop some info in!
Bees,
Voles,
Chaffinches,
Blue tits,
Coal tits,
Jackdaws ( hmmmm),
Blackbirds,
Robins,
Sparrows,
Dunnocks,
...and the rest of the post is for everyone else here..;0)
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I had 2 hedgehogs last night walk from one side to the other!!! Dog like to roll in their poo.
Have a toad in the pond at night.
All sorts of birds inc, buzzards and kestrels.
Did see a Kite in Folkingham today
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Rabbits
Fox
Newts, frogs, toad and assorted water beetles in the pond keeping the fish company
Voles
Hedgehogs
Huge spread of birds
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Several kinds of Bees, various butterflies and moths.
Blackbirds, spotted breast Thrush (not sure which yet) Sparrers, Blue Tits, Black Caps, a Robin, collared doves, Wood Pigeons, Magpies which eat the eggs from the nests in the hedge Grr!
Squirrels, Shrews, Fox, Hedgehogs, Toads and Grass Snakes - but still too many slugs n snails!
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I'll try to only include what others have not yet added:
Red Tailed KItes
Jays
Greenfinches ( 2 pairs this year on the site!!!)
Garden Warbler
Chiffchaff
Black Cap
Wood pigeons (But wish they would leave)
Little Owl
Song Thrush
Crow
Pheasant
Grey Heron (2 this year... the original seems to have a friend)
Kestrel
Swift
Swallow
House Martin
Green Woodpecker
Butterflies: Brimstone, Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Peacock, Painted Lady, Small Skipper, Meadow Brown, Orange Tip, Small White, Small Heath, Speckled Wood, Holly Blue
Moths, Cinnabar, Yellow Underwing, Scarlet Tiger, various small Carpet moths (not ones that live on carpets of course lol) Mullein Moth
and lots of other insects including Marmalade Hoverfly, Rose Chafer Beetle, Lesser Stag Beetle, Soldier Beetle, Solitary bees *, Bumble bees*, Honey bees*, Ichneumon Flies* Cuckoo Wasps* Wasps* Damsel Flies* Dragonflies* Woodlice* Slugs* Snails* Grasshoppers* Horse Flies* Mosquitoes*
*Have not listed all species but if anyone is interested pm me
Field Mouse
Wood Mouse
Field Vole
Rabbit (GRRRR)
Grass snake
Common Frog
Common Toad
Smooth Newt
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Among our birdie visitors at home are a family of Goldfinches who come to the bird feeders next door, then patrol my garden for various treats. They love the seeds of Verbena bonariensis and spend a fair bit of time on these.
We also have a starling mob, whose particular society trait seems to be imitation. Last year it was car alarms that were in and a couple of them loved showing off to the others with these. This year it is ring tones - those short clipped ones that were on all cordless phones when they first got introduced. They are quite a popular choice on mobiles, so I guess that was the source :lol:
On the allotment, the slow worms are out in force. I see quite a lot as they love basking on my compost heaps, under the black plastic I use as covers.
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Marvellous!
I got talking to a neighbour recently, and we agreed that some sort of wild area must be good for the wildlife, what with seeds forming, and plenty of wild flowers for bees too.
There is a large area of the churchyard nearby, which is deliberately left wild, and the place teams with all sorts of insects, etc!
(And our wild bit at home, actually the whole front garden, doesn't have to be mown or dug ever...)!
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Sparrows, goldfinches, collared doves, wood pigeons, magpies, crows, starlings, chiff-chaffs, skylarks, curlews, lapwings, sandpipers, various types of finches and warblers, slugs, snails, ladybirds, butterflies, moths and bees.
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Sparrows, goldfinches, collared doves, wood pigeons, magpies, crows, starlings, chiff-chaffs, skylarks, curlews, lapwings, sandpipers, various types of finches and warblers, slugs, snails, ladybirds, butterflies, moths and bees.
This is some list, GG!
I don't think I've ever seen some of these, and while you're on a huge marshy plain, I guess that the habitat for birds just makes all the difference!
I went to Elmley Reserve a year or so ago, and saw my first marsh harriers. Wow! What a delight!
And there's Mrs Growster and me being all wobbly about a baby woodpecker hopping about on the church wall!
We do, however, have a colony of buzzards nearby, and they are a delight to see, just dangling in the breeze, and not upsetting anybody!
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We had a woodpecker earlier on this year along with the occasional white egret but recently we've seen a few buzzards and a barn owl, and I forgot to mention the swallows.
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We get a gaggle of jackdaws, marauding around the feeders every morning! They live in the church tower behind us, and make a blasted racket in the dawn hours.
I think they also knocked over several baby blackbirds as well :0(
JRT is expert at barking at them, so they don't get it all their own way...
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A couple of birds I think not mentioned yet: sparrowhawk and wren
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Badgers. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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Amongst all the others, the sparrow gang are really very tame now, and sit on the window and door sills, whilst I am on the other side typing this.
Of the 8 or 9 magpies, one is especially funny, as he is in love with his reflection in the mirror set in a brick arch.
Wood pigeons, not so funny, 2 of them are trying to build a nest in my tall Photinia tree, so I go out and poke gently into the tree with a broom handle. I haven't seen them today so perhaps they have got the message !
Oh yes, and lots of blackfly >:( Mrs Bouquet
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Whelks !
They probably do not want to be there but the immature Black Backed Gulls think differently !
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Chickens ;)
beetles
worms
butterflies
aphids >:(
spiders
magpies
flying rats (pigeons)
mice
slugs
snails
millipedes
seagulls (no welks)
fox
hedgehogs
me :lol:
to name a few
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Fabulous!
Like a lot of us here, I get emails from 'Grow wild', and this time they did a piece on bees.
It struck me right there, such that I left the lawn alone (covered in clover), and also stopped strimming weeds with flowers.
I suppose we can always get a bit anxious when faced with glaring negatives about failing bee populations, but somehow this one really worked for me!
I'm thinking of asking Kent CC if they'll plant cotoneaster along the motorways, as our several shrubs just teem with our honey-mates! (Expect an answer in December - next year:0(
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When OH was driving the car, I used to open the passenger side window, and having made little mud balls, which were filled with meadow seeds, threw them out onto the grass verges as we went by.
I do notice that some of the places I do see the odd poppy and cornflower, daisy etc. I would like to think that was our effort. Mrs Bouquet
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Fabulous!
Like a lot of us here, I get emails from 'Grow wild', and this time they did a piece on bees.
It struck me right there, such that I left the lawn alone (covered in clover), and also stopped strimming weeds with flowers.
I suppose we can always get a bit anxious when faced with glaring negatives about failing bee populations, but somehow this one really worked for me!
I'm thinking of asking Kent CC if they'll plant cotoneaster along the motorways, as our several shrubs just teem with our honey-mates! (Expect an answer in December - next year:0(
Cotoneaster is great for berry eating birds in the depths of winter too!
In hard weather our cock Blackbird would defend it from all comers !
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Absolutely, 8!
We've got several growing out of the wall, and it's very common to see a blackbird noshing away...
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Absolutely, 8!
We've got several growing out of the wall, and it's very common to see a blackbird noshing away...
Perhaps not such a good idea being non native ?
https://www.welshwildlife.org/westglamnews/cotoneaster-a-wildlife-goodie-or-baddie/
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ANTS all colours, flying, running, and generally causing havoc. Do they eat through cement ? Mrs Bouquet