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Post by DJCopa on Feb 9, 2023 17:06:24 GMT
I found an old picture of me, day-drunk, stood on top of a childs slide in my mate's garden, trying to feed a sausage to a bunch of red kites
Nice t-shirt - got a load of gear from Bored, Southsea. Now checking Pompey News site for any articles about a random man and dead ducks. |
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Feb 9, 2023 17:54:10 GMT
This feels like the first draft of Danny Champion of the World, where he originally gets taught how to poach pheasants by sticking a horse hair through a sausage.
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Post by Lukus on Apr 30, 2023 11:53:51 GMT
I've snuck up on a few beasties lately, which has been incredibly satisfying, particularly this fox, as I've been trying for ages without any success - http://instagram.com/p/CrJDkCwMsQi |
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Post by ekz on May 1, 2023 1:51:43 GMT
You've got some stunning photos there mate, good job
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Post by Lukus on May 1, 2023 7:36:08 GMT
Thanks! I can't seem to work out how to link directly to the photo I mean, I think IG are updating things.
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Post by Dougs on May 1, 2023 8:02:20 GMT
Needs to be a jpg here rather than an IG/Imgur shortcut.
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Post by Lukus on May 1, 2023 8:07:31 GMT
Weird, IG embedded posts definitely used to work here.
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Post by Dougs on May 1, 2023 8:33:56 GMT
It's never worked for me, so just resorted to the jpg link itself.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2023 14:04:05 GMT
 Tonight's dinner. |
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on May 4, 2023 17:33:11 GMT
 Found this little beastie hiding yesterday.
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Post by alastair on May 4, 2023 21:35:58 GMT
A slow worm?
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Post by Dougs on May 4, 2023 21:38:07 GMT
Looks like it to me.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on May 4, 2023 23:56:24 GMT
Gave me the heebie jeebies, that's for sure!
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Post by dfunked on May 5, 2023 7:01:07 GMT
Aye, I let out a little squeal the first time I saw one scuttling across our path. They're just more unexpected than anything.
Found a nest of them under some building waste the previous owner had kindly left behind our shed, so that hasn't been cleared. Scared the shit out of me then too.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on May 12, 2023 17:56:52 GMT
So outside my office window at home I'm on the side of the house, I've hung a couple of cheapy (Arf) bird feeders from Lidl off a makeshift hanger that hangs off the conservatory, presumably you just wait for birdys to realise they exist?
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Post by Lukus on May 12, 2023 22:21:39 GMT
Yeah, they're cautious at first but after a week or so they get more bold. You'll notice some birds are more confident/un-phased than others, too. Like the dunnocks here are super cheeky whereas the robins are pretty skittish.
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Post by skalpadda on May 13, 2023 1:49:56 GMT
There's a lizard in this picture. Would never have spotted it if it hadn't made weird rustling sounds in the dry grass.
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Post by dam on Feb 20, 2024 13:45:23 GMT
Wow, got me thinking how I can encourage lizards (I am aware this was last year....). We have newts, and yesterday was Frog Day!
Pond is now full of the slimey bastards hard at it.
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Post by mikeck on Mar 11, 2024 11:41:07 GMT
After spending so much time on the borders, potted bushes and plants and sorting out our mound (very long story, but we have turned what was a giant fucking cat litter mound into a sleeper walled area and spent three years culivating into a nice raised planted area) I have one area left to sort; the lawn.
It's not a massive area, but our lawn is just awful, the grass will not take, I have spent loads trying to sort it, have used Greenthumb for the past 18 months hoping professional help will sort it, and now I'm just going to sack it off and resort to a clover/wild flower garden. I had already cut a couple of corners away (one for the kids playhouse and another has a gravelled area with garden table and chairs) and so for the rest will overseed all the patches and into the remaining grass and hopefully cultivate a nice varied wild lawn instead.
When I look at the state of the garden when we moved in (new build L shaped garden) compared to now it actually looks half way to being an established garden, think I've done pretty well in only three years. I do long for a really nicely established garden with older trees and bushes...maybe that's on the cards for our forever home.
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Post by technoish on Mar 11, 2024 12:26:49 GMT
What's up with the lawn? Is it too wet?
I personally didn't find the seed greenthumb used on mine did much last year. But the one I bought myself worked really well not long after.
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Post by mikeck on Mar 11, 2024 12:36:59 GMT
Yeah far too wet most of the time. We get a shit tonne of leatherjackets here too, have been affected three times already and the buggers munch the fuck out of the grass even when using treatment (tried nemotodes myself and Greenthumbs own pest control).
Also think it's standard shite new build approach, ground underneath not well drained, full of rubble and clay and just poor turf. I replaced some of it with new turf two years ago but the same problems persist. I've also overseeded and scarified and aerated, but nothing is taking. So rather than keep stressing, I'm going to have a much more eco-friendly wild garden and fuck trying to have a picturebook green lawn which isn't great for garfden bio-diversity anyway.
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Post by nexus6 on Mar 11, 2024 13:05:47 GMT
Yeah far too wet most of the time. We get a shit tonne of leatherjackets here too, have been affected three times already and the buggers munch the fuck out of the grass even when using treatment (tried nemotodes myself and Greenthumbs own pest control). Also think it's standard shite new build approach, ground underneath not well drained, full of rubble and clay and just poor turf. I replaced some of it with new turf two years ago but the same problems persist. I've also overseeded and scarified and aerated, but nothing is taking. So rather than keep stressing, I'm going to have a much more eco-friendly wild garden and fuck trying to have a picturebook green lawn which isn't great for garfden bio-diversity anyway. This is a great approach in my opinion. Grass is just shit for pretty much everyone - animals don’t need it and you don’t need to cut it and stress over how perfect it is. As you say a wildlife type garden will help with the new build shite soil etc and it’s generally lower maintenance if done right in the first place. Gravel banks, large stones, wild grasses and little hardy plants. There is a wealth of info around on walkable ground over that isn’t grass that grows easily. But some large plastic tubs, sink them in the ground and make a pond for little critters! |
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Post by alastair on Mar 11, 2024 13:34:50 GMT
I saw a hummingbird hawkmoth at the weekend when I was doing the first cut of the front lawn
It flitted about the daffodils, irises and other bulbs. Annoyingly I didn't have my phone with me to take a pic.
Looked it up online afterwards and that's definitely what I saw.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 11, 2024 13:43:54 GMT
Still can't get close to cutting my lawn. It's so wet out there. Maybe this weekend, if ot stops raining for 5 mins
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Post by alastair on Mar 11, 2024 13:56:10 GMT
I'm sure you should be more excited about the moth than the fact that I was able to cut my grass!
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Post by Dougs on Mar 11, 2024 14:00:52 GMT
You haven't seen the state of my grass (ahem). Desperate to get the mower on it, so it's pure envy.
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Post by stixxuk on Mar 11, 2024 14:14:12 GMT
Can anyone suggest a good wireless "trail cam" type of thing for capturing wildlife in the garden at night (automatically)?
I have an outdoor plug socket free down there, although of course wireless may still be easier.
Loads of cheap tat on Amazon, all with suspiciously high review scores...
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Post by smoothpete on Mar 11, 2024 16:25:10 GMT
i bought a cheapo one from Amazon, it's actually surprisingly good. OK so it's not amazing but it does the trick.
edit - I'll post a recent video once it uploads / processes etc
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Post by smoothpete on Mar 11, 2024 16:32:25 GMT
Fox then later a badger. Absolute fucking unit of a badger too.
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Post by mikeck on Mar 11, 2024 16:42:35 GMT
Because neither of you have avatars I thought stixxuk had in the space of two hours asked about what camera to buy, bought one, installed it, somehow had a whole night come and go and upload his video. Took me a while to realise it was smoothpete with the video upload...
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