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Post by yggdrasil on Dec 16, 2023 10:26:56 GMT
What do you get? Loads of foxes when I lived in Islington. We have a family group of foxes living in the undergrowth in my road, we feed them nightly and they are in lovely condition so far. We keep an eye out for mange and dose their jam sandwiches (they love sweet jam) with special drops which clears it up if they do contract it. Have about a dozen wood pigeons, a bunch of starlings that visit every day and a load of sparrows and a pair of Robins nesting in the garden. A couple of squirrels visit most days too. Spend a fortune on bird food, luckily the cat just watches them and has never gone for one he even sits outside watching them and they just ignore him. The cat's a rescue and lived on the street so is psychopathically territorial and hates all other cats and people apart from us so keeps the garden clear of other cats.
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Post by yggdrasil on Dec 16, 2023 10:28:35 GMT
I don't actually mind winter that much, heating bills aside, I prefer it to boiling hot weather which I suffer with. You can always put more clothes on, there's a limit to what I can take off without people throwing rotten fruit at me.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 16, 2023 11:15:54 GMT
What do you get? Loads of foxes when I lived in Islington. We have a family group of foxes living in the undergrowth in my road, we feed them nightly and they are in lovely condition so far. We keep an eye out for mange and dose their jam sandwiches (they love sweet jam) with special drops which clears it up if they do contract it. Have about a dozen wood pigeons, a bunch of starlings that visit every day and a load of sparrows and a pair of Robins nesting in the garden. A couple of squirrels visit most days too. Spend a fortune on bird food, luckily the cat just watches them and has never gone for one he even sits outside watching them and they just ignore him. The cat's a rescue and lived on the street so is psychopathically territorial and hates all other cats and people apart from us so keeps the garden clear of other cats. That's really nice of you. Thank you.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 16, 2023 11:22:38 GMT
4pm here but yes! It's fucking rubbish. Try Finland, though. Get's light around midday then goes dark around 2pm. Fuck that shit! Sunset is now getting later each day. Interesting that this happens before the shortest day, which is 22 Dec this year (at lest it is in Edinburgh .. daylight will be one second less here than the 21st.) How is that possible I hear you ask? Well, sunrise time does not reach its latest until 29 December. So, earliest sunset in the 15th, latest sunrise on the 29th and the 22nd is the day in which the time between sunrise and sunset is lowest.
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Post by mowlick on Dec 16, 2023 15:38:29 GMT
What do you get? Loads of foxes when I lived in Islington. We have a family group of foxes living in the undergrowth in my road, we feed them nightly and they are in lovely condition so far. We keep an eye out for mange and dose their jam sandwiches (they love sweet jam) with special drops which clears it up if they do contract it. Have about a dozen wood pigeons, a bunch of starlings that visit every day and a load of sparrows and a pair of Robins nesting in the garden. A couple of squirrels visit most days too. Spend a fortune on bird food, luckily the cat just watches them and has never gone for one he even sits outside watching them and they just ignore him. The cat's a rescue and lived on the street so is psychopathically territorial and hates all other cats and people apart from us so keeps the garden clear of other cats. What treatment do you use for the mange ? We haven't seen it for a while and I don't want too either. And I like the idea of dosing the foxes regularly. And seeing them scoffing bread and jam like a bunch of kids.
Dunno about the pigeons. I like to see them strutting around and stuffing their faces on bird seed, but I would like to see some blackcurrants on the bushes once in a while as well, so one of the jobs next year will be to build a fruit cage, which will reduce the wildlife's rations.
Odd thing, much as I like a garden full of stoned moggies, I just don't seem able to grow cat nip.
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Post by yggdrasil on Dec 16, 2023 15:46:43 GMT
We have a family group of foxes living in the undergrowth in my road, we feed them nightly and they are in lovely condition so far. We keep an eye out for mange and dose their jam sandwiches (they love sweet jam) with special drops which clears it up if they do contract it. Have about a dozen wood pigeons, a bunch of starlings that visit every day and a load of sparrows and a pair of Robins nesting in the garden. A couple of squirrels visit most days too. Spend a fortune on bird food, luckily the cat just watches them and has never gone for one he even sits outside watching them and they just ignore him. The cat's a rescue and lived on the street so is psychopathically territorial and hates all other cats and people apart from us so keeps the garden clear of other cats. What treatment do you use for the mange ? We haven't seen it for a while and I don't want too either. And I like the idea of dosing the foxes regularly. And seeing them scoffing bread and jam like a bunch of kids.
Dunno about the pigeons. I like to see them strutting around and stuffing their faces on bird seed, but I would like to see some blackcurrants on the bushes once in a while as well, so one of the jobs next year will be to build a fruit cage, which will reduce the wildlife's rations.
Odd thing, much as I like a garden full of stoned moggies, I just don't seem able to grow cat nip.
We've always got it from The Fox Project... foxproject.org.uk/fox-facts/sarcoptic-mange/They used to send a bottle and just ask if we'd make a donation, not sure they still do it now, though. We only use it when they have signs of the mange though. I believe it's a treatment, not a preventative.
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Post by mowlick on Dec 16, 2023 16:14:08 GMT
What treatment do you use for the mange ? We haven't seen it for a while and I don't want too either. And I like the idea of dosing the foxes regularly. And seeing them scoffing bread and jam like a bunch of kids.
Dunno about the pigeons. I like to see them strutting around and stuffing their faces on bird seed, but I would like to see some blackcurrants on the bushes once in a while as well, so one of the jobs next year will be to build a fruit cage, which will reduce the wildlife's rations.
Odd thing, much as I like a garden full of stoned moggies, I just don't seem able to grow cat nip.
We've always got it from The Fox Project... foxproject.org.uk/fox-facts/sarcoptic-mange/They used to send a bottle and just ask if we'd make a donation, not sure they still do it now, though. We only use it when they have signs of the mange though. I believe it's a treatment, not a preventative. Many thanks
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 16, 2023 18:03:56 GMT
What treatment do you use for the mange ? We haven't seen it for a while and I don't want too either. And I like the idea of dosing the foxes regularly. And seeing them scoffing bread and jam like a bunch of kids.
Dunno about the pigeons. I like to see them strutting around and stuffing their faces on bird seed, but I would like to see some blackcurrants on the bushes once in a while as well, so one of the jobs next year will be to build a fruit cage, which will reduce the wildlife's rations. Odd thing, much as I like a garden full of stoned moggies, I just don't seem able to grow cat nip.
Those wood pigeons are a menace if you've got a car!
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Post by gwyn on Dec 16, 2023 18:13:24 GMT
Clean air
I like to settle round a bonfire, feed the foxes and rats and birds and such and enjoy the fact that I can't do anything until spring.
But these days there is always some coffin dodger moaning about the smoke or some such
Coffin dodger. 😂😭😭😭 So British, so you to make me laugh at them.
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Post by Teleadm on Dec 16, 2023 18:43:39 GMT
That it get's dark early, and people lights candles that they forget to blow out.
On the north side of our globe
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