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I enjoy watching birds visiting my garden. Whilst I was having lunch I saw goldfinches on the seed feeder. It reminded me of when we got Niger seeds to attract them (I read they like them)and never saw any. Then one day they started visiting the mixed seed. I love listening to their song too, as they will sit on our roof and sing for a long while.

I also enjoy a regular walk locally with trees between the path and houses and often stop to watch a robin or blackbirds.

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  • We have bird feeders in the garden, mostly we get sparrows and starlings and a few jackdaws, but there are a pair of collared doves that come fairly often. In the park where I sometimes walk Fearn there are a couple of robins who know me and come for food and a tree full of sparrows that come and shout at me for food and some blackbirds that I put seed down for in grassy boarders so they can have a good fossick about.

    Living on Anglesey I'm a bit spoilt for choice with wildlife, woods with red squirrels, woodpeckers and all sorts of finches and ones I can't name, sea, freshwater and wading birds, including culew, a variety of geese and ducks, oyster catchers and different gulls.

    I think one of the best things one can do for wild life, is create a dead hedge, just a stack of woody cuttings, leaves and maybe some straw which will gradually rot down, but will create an ideal hidding place for toads, hedgehogs and insects. I've noticed a real difference in the variety of insect life in my garden since I made it, we've lots of hover flies patrolling various plants, the males are territorial and will come and have a good look at you when you come into their patch, they eat loads of aphids and other garden nasties.

    I try and make my garden a big restaurant where there's something for everyone to eat, even me, I think this way of gardening increases wildlife and makes a garden much more of a self sustaining eco system.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    It sounds a lovely place to be. What lovely places to walk. Yes, an eco system is the best way with plenty of places for wildlife to hide. We had a lame dove in our garden one day. The next day there were only feathers, so I presume it was dinner for a fox.

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