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Post by Geranium on Oct 7, 2011 14:02:22 GMT
Oh, Henry would just love chasing them!  He runs after roe deer in the fields, but of course he's not nearly fast enough. Do you know where the Muntjacs escaped from? Some Safari Park I assume? |
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Post by peony on Oct 7, 2011 14:39:29 GMT
Oh, Henry would just love chasing them! He runs after roe deer in the fields, but of course he's not nearly fast enough. Do you know where the Muntjacs escaped from? Some Safari Park I assume? I believe it was Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, the Duke in Victorian times thought they would look good in his parkland but of course they escaped and have gradually spread. Same as the Rothschild who lived at Aylesbury and had a menagerie where he kept edible dormice and they escaped too, but they haven't spread this far yet  Evidently they can be a real menace if they get in your loft, they are really cute looking though ;D |
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Post by Cherry on Oct 7, 2011 16:26:24 GMT
That is right Peony. However, we have roe deer too and they have moved across the road, so now my neighbour on that side has the bother with them.
We have dormice. I have had five in the big rubber trug thing. They find their way into this and can't get out, so I keep a tomato in it now to feed them until I can empty them under a bramble bush. They really are lovely.
I have field mice living in the compost bin, but eventually they will leave this and end up as food for the cat. Shame.
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Post by Geranium on Oct 7, 2011 16:50:39 GMT
Thanks for the information, Peony. It isn't as bad a situation as the release of grey squirrels into the UK, but I suppose if they're not culled, they'll breed and spread more widely. |
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Post by Rosie on Oct 7, 2011 17:16:50 GMT
That is right Peony. However, we have roe deer too and they have moved across the road, so now my neighbour on that side has the bother with them. We have dormice. I have had five in the big rubber trug thing. They find their way into this and can't get out, so I keep a tomato in it now to feed them until I can empty them under a bramble bush. They really are lovely. I have field mice living in the compost bin, but eventually they will leave this and end up as food for the cat. Shame. We have deer round here too, i used to love passing Dunnydeer hill fort as there were reds and fallow's on there. When Graham was using the digger i spotted something in the bucket, when i looked it was a water vole luckily it wasn't harmed which is a miracle really, we let it go over by the burn  |
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Post by Geranium on Oct 7, 2011 17:27:05 GMT
Poor little thing - I bet it was scared stiff! I've just looked up when grey squirrels were introduced into the UK - it was in the mid-nineteenth century, and it was into Woburn Park.  |
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Post by peony on Oct 7, 2011 17:59:00 GMT
Cut back more perennials, rescued more ladybirds - everything I cut down seems to be full of them  , and swept up lots of leaves and chestnut cases. |
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Post by Cherry on Oct 8, 2011 18:56:32 GMT
I am now amending my deer report. The blighters have come back here and I have a family of them, right outside the kitchen window. The fields have all been harvested and replanted so they use the hedges by the ditches for cover.
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Post by Geranium on Oct 8, 2011 20:42:39 GMT
Wonderful, Cherry! |
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Post by grindle on Oct 9, 2011 4:21:09 GMT
I am now amending my deer report. The blighters have come back here and I have a family of them, right outside the kitchen window. The fields have all been harvested and replanted so they use the hedges by the ditches for cover. hope your garden will be safe |
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Post by Cherry on Oct 9, 2011 11:42:35 GMT
They eat camellias, but haven't been in the front garden for some time now, so the camellia they like, Donation, actually has leaves and buds. I will fence it again.
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Post by Geranium on Oct 9, 2011 12:50:07 GMT
When I said 'Wonderful' I meant being able to see them at close quarters - they are beautiful animals. Obviously I hope they don't damage your garden. |
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Oct 10, 2011 6:33:03 GMT
I am now amending my deer report. The blighters have come back here and I have a family of them, right outside the kitchen window. The fields have all been harvested and replanted so they use the hedges by the ditches for cover. You have my sympathy, I noticed ours have returned too  they have stripped the leaves off my new greengage tree, I must protect the trunk before they strip the bark. I wouldn't mind your dormice Cherry. |
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Post by Louise on Oct 10, 2011 6:39:37 GMT
In a previous house the neighbours golden retriever would chase the deer in the local woods. Once it caught and killed a small lamb (not in the woods, obviously(  |
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Post by Cherry on Oct 10, 2011 8:10:13 GMT
The farmer is entitled to shoot the dog if it chases sheep. That is really bad.
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He runs after roe deer in the fields, but of course he's not nearly fast enough.
Evidently they can be a real menace if they get in your loft, they are really cute looking though ;D 
, and swept up lots of leaves and chestnut cases. 
they have stripped the leaves off my new greengage tree, I must protect the trunk before they strip the bark.
