I am aware that, although I have great faith in the earthshattering importance of the deep thoughts that I confide to this blog on the subjects of freefrom food, allergy, electrosensitivity and the ways of the world, there are a number of readers who subscribe to it merely to discover which of my plants has been chomped by slugs, how the local foxes are doing and to catch up with the latest antics of our cats…..
While they can log in to the latest on the garden and the cats via the links at the top of the page, I have just realised that there was no way of them checking up on the doings of the squirrels, the fox cubs, and the other wild life inhabitants of our north London garden, as most of the links to their pages were buried deep in some earlier blog.
For your benefit, therefore, dear Readers, I have just added a little ‘activity index’ at the top of the Michelle’s Garden page via which you can see our resident dunnocks battling though the snow, the squirrels defeating my best efforts to keep them off the bird table, and the baby fox cubs having breakfast.
Enjoy!
Hi Michelle
Cat’s is a 4 letter word in our garden. We don’t have any pets because were too frequently away from home.
Going back a few years we had a real diversity of wildlife from hedgehogs to squirrels and Mel (wife) and I really enjoyed sitting in the garden watching the squirrels beat the assault courses we set up for them to get to the food.
These days the squirrels have all gone and we attribute this to the many cats that now patrol our garden and treat it as their personal bathroom. We have not seen a squirrel for about two years – but frequently find half eaten dead birds on our lawn.
Be glad your battle is keeping the squirrels off the bird table – I’m assuming this brings you a giggle or two..
Enjoy your squirrels – I wish we could still enjoy ours…
Be good – Mick
Hi Mick – you amaze me! Apart from our own 2 1/2 cats we have a number neighbouring cats who also pop by the garden – but the squirrels are not even remotely phased by them. The cats give the occasional desultory chase but the squirrels scarcely even break into a trot on their way off to a tree.
We very occasionally get presented with a very young bird by one of our cats (maybe once every two years), who also occasionally presents us with a very small mouse, usually still in good shape and quite rescuable!
Baffled….. I suspect that most of the cats around here are pretty well fed which could be one reason why they are not that predatory.
Anyhow, I am really sorry that you are now squirrel-less. Whatever about keeping a diversity of wildife in cities (very good thing…) the squirrels do provide us with hours of excellent entertainment!