Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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howard,if you need fatballs for the birds poundstretchers are doing large tubs for about a fiver a tub.as for squirrils try kearsney abby,go in from the chilton road entrance and keep to the top half.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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actually do remember now brian, but that is the only place i have seen one, when i lived in ilford they ran amok during the summer when windows were open, chewing electrical cabling etc.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
Howard, the squirrels run along Dover Grammar School For Girls tall chainlink fencing that is at the bottom of our garden, they always seem to come from Park Avenue direction.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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have to check next time i am down that way jan, these amimals tend to avoid me if it wasn't for the front page i would not know there were foxes around.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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A while ago the pet shop in the High St had a board outside announcing: 'Fat Balls £1', used to make a lot of people chuckle as they went by.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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some do not need garden feeders but prefer to forage for themselves like this chap earlier at de braddelie wharf.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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turns out the feathered ones have been visiting while my back was turned, the feeder is only a quarter full now. all seems a bit one sided, i shell out for the grub and don't even get a tweet let alone a song in return
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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you should be on twitter then howard then you here tweets all day.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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What they also need at this time of year is water, with most natural supply frozen, I always keep a bowl on the garden table and if it freezes I chuck it out and replace with fresh.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i do put a bowl of warm water out each morning, i have no idea if they drink it - by the end of the day it looks like they have washed their feet in it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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finally witnessed a bird in my garden yesterday and today, a magpie scoffing the dried meal worm i put down on the path near to the feeder.
the feeder on the tree branch has had to be refilled with the all year round mixture so they must have me marked down as a soup kitchen, trouble is i never see them.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Now a regular visitor in our garden....
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Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
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I have a large feeding station that serves mixed seed, fatballs, black sunflower seeds, sunflower hearts, all from the pound shop in Pencester, yesterday in less then 20 mins we fed Blue tits, great tits and long-tailed tits, sparrows and dunnocks, four blackbirds, collared doves and a robin!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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for some reason birds don't stay long in my garden.
next door's is much more subtle in her hunting.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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We've just had the heron back in the garden again. Thankfully the fish pond still has netting around it. Here's a photo of him from last year.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a real cracker there jeane, not seen the dover one for ages.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Howard, there was one snuggled down out of the wind by the bridge near Halfords yesterday.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Ray, after being harassed by a seagull I saw the heron land there the other day.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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was down bridge street late morning yesterday, didn't think to look.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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all coming out of the woodwork, 2 collared doves swooped in earlier followed by 2 magpies who between them scoffed down a load of dried mealworm.