Published on 12, July, 2020
It’s been a few months since I was last here. So I thought I’d post as a ‘newbie’ as I’m sure loads have joined since I last posted.
I guess my hope is to meet people similar to me - I’d like to say friendships but I’m terrible on a social level so I don’t want to set the bar too high! I’ve been told I’m good at listening and advice and if there’s a clear topic I’m usually ok in conversation. I’m really keen to try to chat to new people at least!
I guess to describe myself - I’m a bit weird, but aren’t we all in our own way? I like history, aviation, wildlife, some tv, some books - I can’t say this advert for myself is doing me any favours!
All the same is anyone wants to chat I’m here
Hello. What kind of wildlife do you like? I know you may like wildlife in general, but is there a specific kind you're the keenest on?
Broadly all wildlife, I’ve grown attached to a friendly family of swans - and I have a huge passion for saving hedgehogs! Are you into wildlife too?
Yea. Mostly birds. Am very attached to a Jay that I feed every day in the garden.
I'm always on the lookout for any other wildlife too. I wanted to make the garden more accessible to hedgehogs but it's not up to me as it's a communal garden and I'm not allowed to because we've had Rats use a hole in the fence that used to be there.
yea i am on a laptop
I’m on my phone and no idea how to do that. My phone doesn’t get on with this forum at the best of times :-p
ur image has to be a .GIF file ( dot gif ). If u rename it as a .gif it will work
I quite like rats - I tried to upload a picture of a rat sunbathing from the summer I took at our local pond but it didn’t work.
i dont mind
Could still be rats - they’re quite fond of water. Water voles are smaller and much less common.
I like birds too - mostly those around my local pond as like you I have a communal garden. What you can always do to help hedgehogs is encourage your local town council to do things that are hog-friendly, for example things I’ve done is encouraged them to re-write policies at their local allotments to ban slug pellets, to include hedgehog highways on new developments and to raise local awareness of the need to help hedgehogs. It’s not quite the same as having them in your garden I know... but it all helps :)
i have 2 rats in my garden, I call them Laurel and Hardy they are always up to things. As long as they stay out of my house, which they have, they are allowed to stay in my garden. I'm not 100% sure they are rats, they may be water voles. They love the river.