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What wildlife have you got in your garden?

frogs, newts (in pond), blackbirds.
Last year we had a goldfinch nesting and in the years past we have had Blue Tits nesting but this year we have neither...why?

alex johnson
frogs, toads, blue tits, blackbirds and a mouse

jessie crooks
iv got in my garden hedgogs, birds and bats

jayne crow
i have got a family of 7 goldfinches in my garden blue tits, coal tits, sparrows, jackdaws, and starlings galore we have 2 doves robins, and a pigeon i attracted the goldfinches with niger seed they love it

nathaniel
i have two magpies one pigentwe crows and a dove

pat
I have allsorts of and foxs also jays doves blue tits herons which sits on the side of the pond it's great watching them

callam
birds - black birds, jays, doves, gold finchs, robins, wrens, tawny owls, starlings and blue tits.amphibians - frogs, toads, comman newts and smooth newts.rats

Sandra
Is it ok to have grey squirrels in your small back garden are there any health issues ?

DEREKOWENS
i have put a hanging frame up in my garden with 4 feeding stations and fat balls and fat coconut shells but i have still not had one bird visit yet it has been up for two weeks can you give any help

ross
how can i attract badgersto my garden

bartholomule
i have no blue tits in or near my garden how could i attract them?many thanks

marie lynch
we have a large selection of birds visiting our garden including blue tits, coal tits, long tail tits, chaffinches, robins, wrens, wood pigeons, sparrowhawk, woodpecker but alas not a single sparrow - any ideas?

anne reid from sough near kelbrook
this year we have seen a redpoll. what a beauty ,it didnt stay long,but hopefully it will be back.also quite alot of goldfinches who come to feed on the niger seeds.when clearing our pond we came across three dragon flies that had climbed up the reeds ,but due to the lack of sun had failed to dry out their wings,so had just died.bluetits failed to hatch their eggs this year.lastly after nesting two years running the house martins didnt arrive this time, so sad.

ian brown
Inspired by springwatch/autumnwatch a couple of year's ago I've put out seed/peanut feeders and I often put out fatballs or suet feeds.This has attracted around 15-20 sparrows that now nest in a nearby conifer tree,2 blue tits, 2 wood pigeons, 2 collared doves and a pair of blackbirds.Also had guest apearances from a pair of goldfinches and now there is a robin hanging around all these in a busy town centre.Just recently built and put up a sparrow suite but now there is bitter fighting between sparrows and blue tits for use of this.

emilie bromley
i have a small hedgehog home at the bottom of our garden right next to the compost heap. i a cut out and arch way in a plastic washing up bowl and attached a plumbing pipe to the hole, in the hole i placed tinned cat food. i have only set up the hedgehog home today so wish me look!

jill
we have a male blackbird coming for at least 3 years quiet...now another blackbird attack and they fight on the ground locked together feathers everywhere hurting

Tiarnan
I wan't wildlife to my garden because I am A wildlife person

Joe
I have birds- sparrows, pigeons and doves

jane howells
i have a wildlife headge plenty of birds a garden pond frogs ect

Tracy from lancaster
I have a large amount of birds visiting daily now..They include house sparrows blue tits,great tits,coal tits,chaffinches,two goldfinch,2 magpies,2 doves,robin,sparrowhawk and its mess it leaves both sexes of blackbirds a wren and lots of greedy starlings and sadly pigeons which are a pain in the butt and i have to regularly shoo them away as if left they build in numbers and at one point i had over 75 and they are better hoovers than my vacuum cleaner ,also i have had a few visits from long tail tits ,greenfinches and along the way we have had a fighting cockeral :o (which we got a vet in for),a grey squirrel hedgehogs and a rat that was dealt with rather quickly (thank goodness) so for a very rural area close to a council estate this pleases me immensly and i get so excited when a new species of bird visits.

I & S Rees
I had a woodpecker in my garden feeding back in june when I first moved into my new house the woodpecker has now gone and have many things around my garden to feed the birds in which many various breeds feed also I have a squirrel a fox in the back fieldalso a pond in which they may drink from - how do we -and what do I feed the woodpecker to try and get him back into our garden?

cate rossendale
We normally have robins, tits, crows, magpies, wood pidgeons etc, yesterday we spotted a woodpecker and a large mistlethrush within minutes of each other.

IAmanda Kerslake
I have found about 21 newts in my garden tonight where do they come from and what do they feed on?

alexia
i have a hedgehod in my garden thats pregnentits called prikkelsand 4 inches wide

Jane & Stevie
We've had a number of visitors to our table in our garden in East Lothian, Scotland, including; Robins, a blackbird family, great tits, wrens, sparrows, bluetits, a coal tit, collared dove, chaffinch, dunnocks, jackdaw, carrion crow, magpies, greenfinch, a siskin and a smaill group of long tailed tits, we are in the process of trying to attract goldfinches to our garden.

Rebecca Harding
I have some toadstools in my garden and a collared dove's nest in my tree xx

tom
there is a heagehog in my garden i have made it a little hut to sleep in and i hope it will be ok i have named hif spike i like him should i keep him or let him go

shelley. workington
i have got two blue tits nesting in my garden, they have young in the nest box as i can hear them when the parents are coming back with food.I am worried that my dog will get the young when they start to leave the box as i have only got a small garden.Should i supervise my dog at all times or will the young blue tits manange to fly away if they are within reach of my dog?

debbie
wow our birdtable is a busy place at the moment! we have two male blackbirds fighting over it! we have sparows, starlings, and collared doves visiting regularly. We also have a young blackbird being "shown the ropes" on our table. How honoured are we? we also have tits visiting the lower part of the garden as we have fat balls. Merseyside

gerard band
goldfinches,hedgehogs,Long Tailed Tits.Frogs.Comma and Holly Blue butterflies

doreen kelly
I have been in my bungalow since last August, and have no small bird's, the only bird's I have are 2 blackbird's and load's of starling when I put food out for the blackbird's. I have put out nut's in bag's, a birdstand in a tree, and seed container's around my garden, and still no small bird's. My neighbour say's there isn't any bird's around here, and he's lived here 14 year's. What can I do to get bird's into my garden?I have alway's had bird's in my other homes.Thank you,

Fleetwood Lancs
We put a bird box on our large ash tree a few weeks ago and this morning a blue tit is checking it out! How exciting. We have bluetits, greatits, greenfinches, sparrows, starlings, collared doves, wood pigeons, dunnocks, goldcrests, goldfinches, chaffinches, blackbirds, wrens, a one legged robin and his partner, magpies, a kestrel landed on my bird table and ate his lunch one day this was a dead mouse, kestrels overhead all the time, seagulls, a goshawk and woodpecker on occassions, the odd squirrel and hedgehog. Loads of frogs in our pond.We live about 5 mins walk from the beach.

Matthew Turner from Carlisle, Cumbria
My garden is just a small yard in the middle of the city, but I manage to atrract a wide range of birds to feed and nest. The feeding birds include chaffinches, house sparrows, starlings, jackdaws, collared doves, woodpigeons, wrens, robins, blackbirds, blue tits and great tits. The nesting birds include house sparrows, blue tits and great tits.

simOne from Embsay Skipton North Yorks
I see oyster catchers fly over my cottage, a weelittle baby robin bobbing about after scraps was in the front garden recently along with doves and bluetits and other little birds. I think people shud encourage wildlife/birds into their gardens and i have a tip, put your old washing up bowl in the garden/yard so birds can freely have a splash around in it or a free drink but of course fill it with water first

anne reid sough near kelbrook
we have frogs, toads and newts in our ponds hedgehogs sleep over winter to appear with young later on we see a greater spotted woodpecker on the peanuts sometimes .a three holed sparrow box gave the birds a chance to produce three broods each from three pairs .most are still with us .also we get robins, wrens, blackbirds, bluetits, coaltits, great tits, songthrush, chaffinch, greenfinch, dunnock collareddoves .

fiona japp
for the past few weeks weve had a new visitor, the long tail tit, ive never seen one up till now quite exciting

simon blackwell
poddington peas, fairies, trolls

craig choda bolton
sparrow, blue tit, magpie, thrush, starling, wren, blackbirds, robins, squirel, hedgehog, collared dove, great tit, chaffinch

Bob
A pair of Goldcrests, Tree Sparrows, Marsh Tit, lovely Hedgehog and Foxes.