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John Rye wrote in
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Hello All

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Baz wrote:
I am very pleased that we have a nice bird population in the garden
now that we have managed to sort out some nice feed for them.
Snag is that I can see evidence of rats. The birds are messy eaters
and drop lots of suff the rat can scavenge.
Anyone else have this problem? What to do?

Thanks
Baz

May be you need to attract a pheasant. I have a beautiful male that
spends a good part of the day sat on the ground under our bird
feeders waiting for the small birds to drop something. At present I
am enjoying watching him. I shall not be so happy if he turns his
attention to my vegetable patch.

John


You know what, John, I can't remember the last time I saw, or even
heard a phesant in the last year or two. They were once very common
here in Lincolnshire. I have heard it said that foxes can be just one
culprit because they like to eat pheasant eggs. Foxes are very common
now here and used to be very rare indeed. I suppose that is a result
of the hunt ban and
no predators.

Baz

I was talking to a farmer last week who said pheasant and partridge
numbers are way down lately because of the spread of buzzards in
recent years. R.




Buzzards! Never seen a buzzard in UK. Only in NZ, and I was only a kid.

Baz