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Galen Thu 08-Aug-13 21:13:45

No, not the kind you lot think about in the banter bar.
The type in our gardens.

I'm rather concerned about the small number of small birds I've seen in my garden this summer. I haven't seen my robin or the wren!

What is just as striking is that normally on a summers evening I would have frequent sightings of pipistrelle and soprano pipistrelle bats, this simmer I haven't seen one!

I am VERY concerned.

Tegan Fri 09-Aug-13 18:05:11

The S.O. said that he'd seen the remains of rabbits in the hedgerow when he was walking the dog, and I said I would have thought that foxes would take food back to their lair not eat it by the side of the road, so I was a bit puzzled by that. He did see the hares earlier in the year, but the grass has grown high again so we wouldn't see them anyway. He stillgets lots of hedge sparrows in his bird bath each morning [they go bonkers in it and he has to fill it up again] but the birds don't come near the bird bath I bought for them sad. I've seen a couple of dragonflies and there's a wasps nest at work but, thus far no one has been out to do anything about it [I'm not holding my breath].

Galen Fri 09-Aug-13 18:11:53

I've just had to chase a squirrel off my bird feeder, cheeky blighter!

Poppikok Mon 12-Aug-13 19:08:26

Well I haven't seen a single hedgehog this year.Not one!
Am I the only one?

Galen Mon 12-Aug-13 19:42:28

I haven't either, not even a squashed one!

JessM Mon 12-Aug-13 19:59:43

some hedgehog droppings in my garden.