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By Richard Jones on 12/10/2007 10:57:49

Following my find of a dead swift in the flower bed, there have been a lot of blog comments on cats, and how welcome or unwelcome they are in the garden. So I just had to share the following, because I found it so comical. It is taken from a


Cats and foxes

By Richard Jones on 16/03/2011 10:22:17

A few days ago a fox vaulted over the fence and landed on the two cats asleep just outside the back door. Fur flew. The poor beast didn't stand a chance. It stopped half way up the lawn and turned to see what exploding ammunition dump it had fallen


Goldfinches, cats and children

By Richard Jones on 02/04/2008 11:57:00

There's not much happening in my garden this week. I think we're scaring everything away. And I can't just blame the cats stalking their quarry; Saturday's bouncy castle and baker's dozen of squawking three- and four-year-olds hasn't added much


Garden birds and their predators

By Richard Jones on 03/03/2010 10:49:02

, frogs and toads wander through occasionally. Blue tits, pigeons and magpies were about on Sunday morning, and when a Siamese cat strutted along the back wall we contemplated the Mammal Society's and RSPB's calculations that cats kill some 55 million


Death in mysterious circumstances

By Richard Jones on 05/09/2007 10:57:49

I have cats. Every so often I have to live with the guilt that they kill the local wildlife. It's usually one of the mice breeding in the compost heaps or a blue-tit fledgling. The main hunter is the black and white one; lovely and soft and over


Stag beetles

By Richard Jones on 25/06/2008 14:05:00

It was getting dark, the cat was skulking after something in the shadows around the hutch and the guinea pig was squealing its head off. Something sinister on the patio? No, just another stag beetle.I often say how privileged I feel to have


Breeding newts

By Richard Jones on 13/04/2011 18:29:03

One of our cats sat motionless on the edge of the pond today, head drooped down almost touching the water as if he were asleep. But the occasional tic gave him away: he was watching newts. The bright sunshine lit up a corner of our triangular pond


Garden lowlife

By Richard Jones on 01/10/2008 12:54:00

The only wildlife I've seen this week has been the rather dead-life brought in by the cats - three and a half mice and a rat not much smaller than our guinea pig. I'm more or less calm that we have mice in the compost bins, but I'm uneasy about


Feeding the birds

By Richard Jones on 12/11/2008 10:13:18

oblivious of the loud whizzes and bangs that keep the cats huddled in a dark corner indoors somewhere. But the cats have cottoned on to this and the moment the explosions stopped, 10.13 in East Dulwich, the black one was out of the cat flap like a shot


Grey squirrels

By Richard Jones on 17/06/2009 18:19:39

their dextrous acrobatics and smile at their bobbity-skip gait without wanting to take a pop at them too often.Despite the cats, at least one squirrel regularly comes right up to our back door to have a sniff around. It will now be encouraged even more after we


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