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when I see it. Its bark is decorated with a thick crust of lichen, and lots of birds, especially thrushes, eat its fruit. It’s beautiful. Not only would my crab apple provide fruit for birds in winter, but its spring flowers would attract bees

, but it gave me quite a shock.I don’t believe the fox thought it was attacking a baby. It was more likely to have been attracted by the smell of fermenting drool, food and sweat that had impregnated the cloth. We take care never to leave soft toys outside

range of designs in my flat. I’ve erected a blue tit box in my garden and one each for blue tits and great tits in the communal area of my block of flats. I’m hoping the eaves of my mum’s house can attract sparrows, while my dad has the perfect

and suburban London about 100 years ago. It was something of an exciting wildlife spectacle. Writing in 1909, Charles Dixon describes the rapidly increasing gull expansion into the capital in his popular book Birdlife of London. He is rather bemused

) the smell of blood attracts flies, which lay eggs in the wound. Foxes can also grab hold of a hedgehog’s back leg and break it; many hogs in Sue’s care have had their legs amputated as a result of such an attack.When I met Sheba, she was sleeping under a