Good news thread

Another bit of good news, I was pulling weeds out of tiny garden pond and found the newts are still there. This time they've been doing what newts do and there's some newtpoles (?) : )

There's some really dark ones in there, a quick look online suggests they might be Great Crested Newts but they're only normal newt size. Are there any Gussie Fink-Nottle's on here? Can you shed some light on the matter, before I start claiming I've got some "raresy" newts on the Riverside Rocket : )
 
I've got 2 hedgehogs awake from their slumbers, hoping for more soon

and more "good" news. I did that offer on Amazon whereby u get a £50 voucher for applying for an american express card. with the voucher, I bought a lovely hedgehog feeding station, chopped the card up, returned it in a letter to american express at a brighton adress - wrote reason for cancellation as "sponsorship of brighton fc". the slightly bad news is that the feeding station is now known as "the amex", but the hogs dont seem to care.
 
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RobWells said:
I've got 2 hedgehogs awake from their slumbers, hoping for more soon

and more "good" news. I did that offer on Amazon whereby u get a £50 voucher for applying for an american express card. with the voucher, I bought a lovely hedgehog feeding station, chopped the card up, returned it in a letter to american express at a brighton adress - wrote reason for cancellation as "sponsorship of brighton fc". the slightly bad news is that the feeding station is now known as "the amex", but the hogs dont seem to care.
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Myself and neighbours each side have cut small squares in the corners of our fences to create a 'hedgehog run'..to enable them to get around the gardens instead of straying onto the roads.
 
RobWells said:
I've got 2 hedgehogs awake from their slumbers, hoping for more soon

and more "good" news. I did that offer on Amazon whereby u get a £50 voucher for applying for an american express card. with the voucher, I bought a lovely hedgehog feeding station, chopped the card up, returned it in a letter to american express at a brighton adress - wrote reason for cancellation as "sponsorship of brighton fc". the slightly bad news is that the feeding station is now known as "the amex", but the hogs dont seem to care.
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Out of interest how do you feed hedgehogs without encouraging rats?
 
Kudos said:
Out of interest how do you feed hedgehogs without encouraging rats?
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rats - in wimborne? are u having a laugh?!

no, seriously - we don't seem to have rats fortunately - have a few little mice that have a nibble, and some foxes came last year - until I reduced the size of the "hedgehog highway" - the feeding station has a maze entrance to keep cats & foxes out, but obviously wouldn't stop rats. I have a little camera running at nighttime, so would know if there were any - fingers crossed it stays that way.
 
RobWells said:
I've got 2 hedgehogs awake from their slumbers, hoping for more soon

and more "good" news. I did that offer on Amazon whereby u get a £50 voucher for applying for an american express card. with the voucher, I bought a lovely hedgehog feeding station, chopped the card up, returned it in a letter to american express at a brighton adress - wrote reason for cancellation as "sponsorship of brighton fc". the slightly bad news is that the feeding station is now known as "the amex", but the hogs dont seem to care.
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They'll care when a load of badgers from up the coast turn up and smash them 5-0 in their hedgehog feeding station.
 
RobWells said:
rats - in wimborne? are u having a laugh?!

no, seriously - we don't seem to have rats fortunately - have a few little mice that have a nibble, and some foxes came last year - until I reduced the size of the "hedgehog highway" - the feeding station has a maze entrance to keep cats & foxes out, but obviously wouldn't stop rats. I have a little camera running at nighttime, so would know if there were any - fingers crossed it stays that way.
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We used to regularly get hedgehogs, but since the lockdown originally started there seemed to be more rats coming into gardens, including ours and neighbours around.

We have bird feeders as well, but the rats were attracted to food the birds knocked down. Even had a bird feeder stuck on the window and saw a rat up on the window ledge getting the bird seed droppings. So stopped feeding hedgehog and the birds.

This unfortunately stopped our hedgehog friends visiting.

Had a lady expert on getting rid of rats put some rat baiters down and that gradually cleared the problem.

So it’s a problem as feeding birds and the hedgehogs also attracted the rats.
 
billythekid said:
We used to regularly get hedgehogs, but since the lockdown originally started there seemed to be more rats coming into gardens, including ours and neighbours around.

We have bird feeders as well, but the rats were attracted to food the birds knocked down. Even had a bird feeder stuck on the window and saw a rat up on the window ledge getting the bird seed droppings. So stopped feeding hedgehog and the birds.

This unfortunately stopped our hedgehog friends visiting.

Had a lady expert on getting rid of rats put some rat baiters down and that gradually cleared the problem.

So it’s a problem as feeding birds and the hedgehogs also attracted the rats.
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Exactly the same issues we have and after getting a couple of rats in the house for a couple of months which came to a brutal and fatal (for them) showdown I'm uber cautious now.

It's a shame because I really enjoy sharing my garden with the wildlife.
 
Our leaking stop cock under the kitchen has been fixed - and new mixer tab added! The cold tap was gammed up with limescale...so no more filling up glasses of squash from the toilet sink!!!
 
Kudos said:
Exactly the same issues we have and after getting a couple of rats in the house for a couple of months which came to a brutal and fatal (for them) showdown I'm uber cautious now.

It's a shame because I really enjoy sharing my garden with the wildlife.
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At that time my wife went into the kitchen one evening and turned on the light to see a rat, after she called out I went in and the rat ran into the hall and straight into the downstairs loo, so I shut the door and left it.

The next day cautiously opened the door expecting to see the rat, but apart from a slightly chewed carpet no sign, it had vanished down a small hole at the back of the loo which we couldn’t see.

When the lady rat expert came to our house, I told her it had vanished from sight, she looked behind the loo and found the hole it can gone down and outside into the front garden to escape.

She said that a rat won’t come into a building unless it has a means of escape, she also mentioned that the rat would have come in the same way it escaped. She put wire mesh around the hole to prevent it happening again.
 
billythekid said:
At that time my wife went into the kitchen one evening and turned on the light to see a rat, after she called out I went in and the rat ran into the hall and straight into the downstairs loo, so I shut the door and left it.

The next day cautiously opened the door expecting to see the rat, but apart from a slightly chewed carpet no sign, it had vanished down a small hole at the back of the loo which we couldn’t see.

When the lady rat expert came to our house, I told her it had vanished from sight, she looked behind the loo and found the hole it can gone down and outside into the front garden to escape.

She said that a rat won’t come into a building unless it has a means of escape, she also mentioned that the rat would have come in the same way it escaped. She put wire mesh around the hole to prevent it happening again.
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How did you know it was a lady rat?
 
I have now taught my granddaughter who is 5, to sing the Dom Solanke song and repeat "in all departments" at the appropriate place.

I have bought her a full kit and she is coming with us to Middlesborough.

Her dad is a Liverpool fan. From Poole.

I'm effing loving it.
 
Notmarcjackson said:
I have now taught my granddaughter who is 5, to sing the Dom Solanke song and repeat "in all departments" at the appropriate place.

I have bought her a full kit and she is coming with us to Middlesborough.

Her dad is a Liverpool fan. From Poole.

I'm effing loving it.
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Good work. Liverpool fans are like rats in the BH area tbh
 
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