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'll have to source on line.  It's a Tacca or bat flower. I've just been looking at some G.C. s that stock them . Definitely on my wish list. Does anyone have one ? Is it a plant or animal? I always have wish lists for plants? I try to get friends to buy

on and undertaking surveys for protected species as well as encouraging provision for wildlife, such as incorporating barn owl boxes and bat lofts into the design.

at the moment between 4 and 6 eggs per day-depending My girls are 4 ex-bats who we adopted last August - named after my 4 sisters! I said I'd have chooks when I retired, and I did. They quickly learnt to be proper chickens and grew very feathery. Almost never

the compost bins.  We have foxes too.      And slow worms, here in the compost bin. Amazing steephill! Gorgeous photos Kate Bats too! Although I practically X-rayed this poor bat with the flash. Not easy trying to photograph bats at night in the rain

in the top of a hill, at 60 km north of Barcelona city.I'm happy to say I still share my days with:- a whole family of bats(squatters in my basement; apparently they love my cave!!...although they don't drink the wine, I thank God for it)-happy snakes (found

to be here as we do. I belong to rescue groups for Bats and hedgehogs and our cats have grown up with them and a variety of birds without ever harming one.Also cat's in a rural enviroment kepp down mice and other vermin, which I might also add have a right

the leaves on the borders but the lawn area drives me mad.....is it true that oak leaves dont rot down? [well not for years and years anyway].....im in the garden today putting up some bat boxes and also making a home for my new neighbour 'spike' who moved

so bad the plants havent been able to take off. My only surviving tom is about 4 cm high and it is almost three months old!!! As you can see there has been carnage in my garden (ok some might be the wood pigeions that used to play bats in my

; bats in the evening, a hedgehog scurrying away into the undergrowth and a pile of fresh earth diggings where a mole has been building. We even saw a lovely golden ferret that had escaped captivity and come to investigate our compost heap. Each of them

, thankyou We may find insects like horseflies and mosquitos a nuisance, but they play an important part in the food chain Swifts, martins and swallows eat mosquitos by the million and they're also food for bats, other birds, dragonflies and amphibians. Fish