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Hello,

I thought I would make a little area where I could share with you some tips about how to spot wildlife and how you can atract birds, mamals and insects to your garden.

Please feel free to add your own articles or tips if you have any.

The first thing I have to offer is how to amke your own fat cake for birds, it's a nice easy recipe for children to try too.
Just to add always use saturated fat, do not use things like margarine or vegetable oil as this will not give the birds the energy they nedd at this time of year.


You need: Suitable container - coconut shell or clean yoghurt pot, a heatproof pan, string.

Ingredients: Beef suet or lard (you need one part of lard to two parts of any of the following. You can just use seeds but any of the other ingredients are suitable too), seeds, nuts, dried fruits - raisins, sultanas - finely chopped bacon rind.

Instructions:
1. Melt or soften the suet/lard in a pan.

2. Pour the other ingredients you are using into the suet and mix well.

3. Place the string into the container so that half of the string is in the container and half is outside. Hold the string in place and pour the mixture into the container over the string.

4. Leave the mixture to cool.

5. Once the suet has hardened, hang up your container by the string that you left hanging outside the pot or coconut.

Enjoy watching the birds eating the food.

Is this a good thread to ask what people think about the culling of grey squirrels?

Brilliant idea as the infect the native Red Squirrels with some nasty infection which kills them off.........and I LIKE RED SQUIRRELS

i was watching The F Word with Gordon Ramsay on Saturday and Giles Coren (v sexy man) visited a restaurant which served squirrel, he was arguing that if you want to get rid of grey squirrels there are only about 2 and a half million of them in Britain, so if we started eating them they'd go quite quickly

That's actually a good idea (insert joke about a hazel nut in evey bite here, lol)

But I cant see anything wrong in eating grey squirrel. Unlike foxes, at least these will be palatable.

Dont let your other half build a bird table when you have 2 cats

Found a dead grey squirrel in our garden a couple of months. We're thinking it might have something to do with the slug pellets we put down, so cats in the garden arent the only danger for squirrels