Hi Nic
Oh no, cats catching frogs not good. Hopefully the novelty will wear off quickly with the wet paws, little horror. Frogs spend most of their time in grass as far as I know, just using water to reproduce & cool down when it’s hot. Yours need to develop a quick reaction to cat faces & dive fast.
Shame about no hoglets in your garden, plenty of assorted sizes of hog up to very large here but have yet to see a baby. Some pretty small ones though with cats observing, doesn’t seem to worry the hogs being stared at! Some huffing was going on a week ago, thought they’d have stopped that by now.
The front feeder has had no takers for weeks but next door have closed off access round the side of their house having rehung the gate that blew off a couple of years ago & that was a hedgehog run while it was all open. I asked them to cut a hole but they didn’t. I moved the feeder out the back two days ago & it’s had visitors, happily not cats as it’s behind big flowerpots & is a challenge to hogs to find never mind cats to squirm their way past the pots.
Put the camera out a couple of nights just to see what’s what & plenty of feet back & forth through the back gate, cats too.
Mrs Blackbird has progressed to clucking in the dead tree next door when the food’s finished if she sees me, then when I put a handful of food for her she dives on the fence right next to me & fills her beak while looking at me the whole time. Not afraid at all, I almost tripped over her while pulling out excess plants in the border Tuesday as she suddenly shot out of the border & was running round my feet! She doesn’t know my eyesight is very bad or she might be more careful. I’m very flattered. Mr Brown Pigeon is pretty friendly too but doesn’t come quite as close as Mrs B.
Glad I only have sparrows in the roof, your starlings sound a bit noisy for close neighbours.
There’s a dead hedgehog under the hedge round the corner, apparently it was there yesterday, fair size poor thing but it’s only the third I’ve seen in almost 14 years on the road. I would rather not see any there.
You may have put your finger on it with the hops in the garden behind. At least it’s something green in all that nothingness.
My escallonias are absolutely covered in huge fat furry bees!
