What creatures do you have visiting your garden?

@katieh (151)
May 10, 2011 3:06pm CST
I was thinking - everyone's mentioning plants I'm familiar with but varieties I've never heard of, and I wondered if we all got the same sorts of visitors? We have loads of frogs who all breed in our pond (currently alive with tadpoles). And dragonflies in the pond too. There's a little mouse who lives under my woodpile. I hope it's a dormouse because they are rare, but it's probably just a fieldmouse. And a squirrel who buries nuts in my containers and never finds them again, judging by how many germinate and turn into baby nut trees. And every so often we have a hedgehog family visit. Occasional visitors are a heron (which is probably after my goldfish) and a fox.
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@marguicha (223910)
• Chile
11 May 11
I live in the city so the only creatures that visit my garden are UFBs (unknown flying bugs) and snails. Fortunatly I don´t have slugs, but snails are a pest. I´m thinking of collecting them for food this coming season, before they end up with half of my plants.
@marguicha (223910)
• Chile
12 May 11
The wicked snails hide during the day and feed on my plants at night.
@katieh (151)
12 May 11
Laughing at UFBs. Are you really going to eat your snails yourself? A couple of years ago we had so many that I collected a bucketful and tipped them on the patio for the thrushes to find.
@katieh (151)
12 May 11
I couldn't. I have a real thing about rubbery lumps - I can't bear oysters or shellfish either. But at least the thrushes like them. I don't know what they're eating this year - I've hardly seen a snail.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
11 May 11
we really dont have that much because we have an open back yard (we live in a condo unit) but my mother in law, she has a collection of squirrels, bunnies and other friends that come visit her and eat her tulip bulbs etc.
@katieh (151)
12 May 11
I've not had anything eat my tulip bulbs (touch wood) but then I only have a few tulips under the hedge which were here when we moved in. They may be so deep nothing can dig them up.
@Galena (9110)
10 May 11
well right now we've got a hen blackbird who has set up nest in the clematis right next to our front door. she's sitting now, so it must be nearly baby blackbird time, as before she was in and out a lot. and a male blackbird has his daily bath in our back pond. he gives you dirty looks if you're in the garden when he wants his bath, but gradually gets brave enough to stand on the stone and have a splash. we have nosy sparrow. a hen sparrow who often sits on our windowsill and peers in. if I sit in the garden on my computer she'll even try and sneak up and look at the screen. nosiest wild bird I've ever encountered. the angelica by our window has grown huge, and I now sometimes look up to see her getting a better view into the living room. in other bird life, we get a pair of fat woodpigeons and some t-i-t-s (I expect that words needs editing strangely rather than just typing normally) and there's lots of lovely bats around here too, which is great. I just wish the neighbours cat didn't like visiting so much. it craps in my garden, looking smug while it does it. horrid smug faced arrogant thing. at my mums they get badgers, rabbits, squirrels, buzzards, magpies, jackdaws, owls, foxes, all sorts of lovely creatures. there's even rumours of a wild big cat that's been seen in the village.
@katieh (151)
12 May 11
Aww! We have a couple of birdboxes but no takers yet, though our birdfeeders are really popular. We also have an unwanted neighbour's cat (who dug up my 11 year olds newly planted begonias. He was very cross).
• India
14 May 11
Wow katieh! You look like living in a paradise of sorts!! I would really love to see all these fantastic creatures that come visiting! My friend from England who lives in Norwich also has a beautiful red fox and a hedgehog with babies coming to visit in her garden. I live in a third floor apartment so all I have are a few pigeons that are regular visitors. Apart from them, a pair of red-whiskered bulbuls, some small finches, sunbirds and if I have millet ears growing, then a pair of white-spotted muniyas! I used to get many sparrows too but the pigeons scare them away!
@ajk111 (2495)
11 May 11
we have frogs and toads visit us. hedgehogs come to help the toads eat the slugs. plenty of bats. during the spring and up till now the deer come to eat the flower buds. no foxes though.
@katieh (151)
12 May 11
I wish we could attract toads - they're rarer than frogs here, and I've not seen one even when the garden's hopping with frogs. I'd like newts too. They're even rarer.