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Talkback: Sparrowhawk overhead
is not pretty, it is a beautiful bird. Mike - according to the RSPB website, the current estimate for sparrowhawk numbers is 41,100 breeding pairs and their numbers are directly regulated by the number of prey birds, not the other way round [unless man by Lone ranger
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28/11/2011 18:39:47
by airborneyellow
Sparrowhawk dilemma
the feeding after the breeding season? Any act of gardening 'disturbs' the balance of nature. Nature would like my garden to be entirely brambles and nettles, etc. Interference is 'necessary', I suppose. Don't really want to stop feeding them as the r by jean riley
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21/06/2012 19:29:13
by LORELEI
Talkback: Scraping the barrel
not convinced by Heuchera Caramel and as for the Garden Monkey's Heuchera Peach Flambe? What an unutterably ghastly name. It is bad enough breeding things like that without burdening the poor unfortunates with names like that. It makes poor Tiramisu Andre (or by Steve
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28/11/2011 18:29:41
by James A-S
Talkback: Blanket weed in garden ponds
untill the baby newts emerge. http://roostershamblin.wordpress.com/ would you please spend a few minutes checking out my chicken blog because it is very informative about all things chicken related. I have been raising more than 50 breeds of chickens by Josquine
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03/05/2012 08:15:58
by Botticelliwoman
Talkback: Hens in the garden
) has not found their hidey hole to date. We are also plagued by foxes, but so far so good, they do not lay as many eggs as the bigger breeds but are very pretty and good fun to have around in the garden. I have kept chickens and even better ducks by Gail
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28/11/2011 18:37:11
by Joy
Talkback: First butterflies of the year
textbooks also give large tortoiseshell, but this is now extinct here as a regularly breeding species. It may have been replaced with red admiral which was always said not to be able to survive our cold wet British winter weather. It is now so often seen by C Pattinson
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28/11/2011 18:38:33
by jjMichael
Talkback: Toad In A Hole.
successfully from a water source? And why would they choose to do so? They tend just to all meet up in ponds to breed and spend most of their time outside the water We haveĀ  two ponds- one with fish and one for frogs. The frogs always lay in the fish pond by Andrew Martin
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02/04/2012 15:03:40
by Andrew Martin
Talkback: Toad tadpoles
soon after i saw over a hundred tadpoles swimming around. Their mum? makes a brief appearance now and again. To be honest i was expecting frogs to move in as i have read toads only breed in large ponds!My pond is fairly small so totally surprised by oldchippy
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24/05/2012 22:26:32
by ess
Dogs eating everything.
& will do for years to come. Sorry but I don't agree with the use of dog mussel on this breed for this reason I agree, walking is the key here and is your garden large enough to give her, her own run? its a square shape, small side, along one half we have my by Suzi
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17/04/2012 17:35:49
by Suzi
A boost to winter.....
. Doubles do not seed.....I think. I'm going to start "breeding" my own.....I have enough varieties. Nothing quite like hellebores for now and for a few weeks yet. Hey, bunnysgarden, if you want babies mulch well now and watch out for them later by Verdun
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30/01/2013 22:48:28
by Verdun