Garden wildlife

[Peony]

I've had a few unusual visitors over the past week:

2 Jays - one was bigger so I presume a boy and girl - hope they stick around
3 Ducks - two male and one female who proceded to get stuck under the pond net
1 Pheasant

Anyone else been getting some new spring wildlife in their garden?

[Islander]

Hares. Lots of them, in pairs, running across the fields like mad things.

A pheasant who had forgotten he could fly and eventually managed to squidge himself through a gap in the fence after walking up and down for ages trying to find a way out.

A baby rabbit which appears to be living under the shed.

Geese, zillions of them in the fields around the house.

D x

[Peony]

Make mine 2 Pheasants now. A girl one just turned up. *babydust* for them!

[wickenwoman]

We're gettign regular visits from some reed buntings who seem very keen on our seed feeders, some dunnocks, lots of long tailed tits, a barn owl likes to sit on the pole out the back and watch over the field for dinner. A harrier sometimes flies over as does a kite and a sparrowhawk who likes to scare all the little ones away every now and then.

[redhed]

Slugs. Snails.

DD2 is debating whether the slugs are, in fact, snails who decided to leave their shells behind while they pop off down the shops.

[wickenwoman]

Slugs are snails that have been mugged (that's what DS used to say)

[parkejm]

We had a hedgehog snuffling around last night

[fifitrix]

I found an enormous burrow under one of our rose bushes - there's a huge pile of earth that's been dug out and J thinks there may be a horse living down there

[shinyaholic]

We have quite a lot at the moment- 3 red legged partridges who visit every afternoon (although we have seen up to six at one time), a couple of pheasants, some rabbits, a woodpecker and there's a burrow that may be a badger- we're trying to figure it out. The previous owners of the house said that used to see muntjac deer in the early mornings in the summer which would be wonderful

[Peony]

I read that as a three legged Partridge and thought "cool"