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Talkback: Great spotted woodpeckers
hanging from the 'roof' around one of my bird tables (there to prevent woodpigeons from vacuuming up in ten minutes a day's food for dozens of small birds) to gather a whole peanut each time UpdateSaw it, today, Sunday. At the end of the garden to put my by Banjo Longbody
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28/11/2011 18:40:02
by Richard Jones
Birds
blackbirds and the male has just come in to feed them, they were quite large birds, is this possible.  The two brown ones that I thought were thrushes have been hanging around my decking area in the garden for the last two days, would they have just fledged by bubblegum
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17/06/2012 10:13:14
by anitasarch
Talkback: More on cats
Having a cat has it's good side and draw backs, Since the death of my beloved "Sam" the garden has been a safe haven for all the nesting birds and their young but I am now over run with Mice, not so bad and Rats, not so good. I also have to put up by Digusted of Hampshire
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28/11/2011 18:30:10
by hazelo3c
Talkback: The benefits of the sunflower
When is the best time to winter my dahlias and geraniums as they still in full bloom? I have grown Sunflowers for the Gardeners World seed trial, some of mine have gone mouldy too I think it must be to do with the awful wet weather we have had by Plants
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28/11/2011 18:30:10
by dannijwcornwall
Slug invasion
, partridges, ans pigeons) many of which want to eat my plants as well. I'm sure the anti-bird netting I use also keeps birds that might eat the slugs away from the plants. I used to get herds of slugs in my 100ft garden, which I would collect on damp evenings by Campbell McKee
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22/01/2012 16:38:26
by Old gardener
Mistletoe
the trees that birds rub the seeds off there beaks on to remove the seeds from the fruit, Hello Oldchippy, I agree with you, once mistletoe germinates, it seems to be able to form foliage within a few years. A student at Kew Gardens carried out an experiment by Sonja Davison
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31/12/2011 17:14:05
by gardengirl6
Birds.
I am puzzled by the regular appearence of four robins on the bird table. This is March, and I would have thought by now they would have become territorial. I was expecting there to be just a pair, hopefully nesting in our garden. What do you all by cowslip2
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22/03/2013 20:58:45
by Dovefromabove
Strawberry Plants and Fruit bushes - weed control
is that the slugs and birds seem to get most of the strawberries and the every cat in the neighbourhood seems to see my raised beds as the local toilets, which means that the kids cant go and pick the fruit as I am worried they will stand in cat mess. I by NJJ272
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18/07/2012 14:15:52
by NJJ272
Nectar-feeding woodpeckers
Like many people, I have a resident pair of great spotted woodpeckers using the garden and currently busy feeding nestlings. I've noticed over the past two summers that the male in particular enjoys feeding from the flowers of red hot poker, so much by Wildman of Pershore
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31/05/2012 10:37:24
by Bored with Bindweed !
Talkback: Seeing green
that filming wasn't for them... We too have them along the roadside trees in Gladstone Park. They will happily raid the garden if there is food out and have formed a sybiotic relationship with the rooks who sit waiting underneath the feeders who, being more by Pene Welch
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28/11/2011 18:29:52
by Geoff Holman