Who knows their bird sounds?

[Guest]

I do remember dial radios but I'm old enough to have forgotten they existed.............and I thought a Night jar was somewhere to keep your teeth.

I keep old nests too - such works of art it would be wrong to chuck them.

Thankfully I am not old enough to know that you keep your teeth in anything other than your mouth or under the pillow for the tooth fairy

[Scarlet]

Do many people keep random wildlife bits? I have part of a shed snake skin from a grass snake. No purpose, just didn't like to get rid of it

Definitely! You can't throw it in the bin.
Stuff usually gets taken for someone else to enjoy - there's usually a little visitor that comes along and wants to take it to school. Unfortunately my two think I'm nuts.

[Nicos]

I too keep things like nests and discarded grass snake skins, empty cocoons, shiny dead beetles

Nests I tend to leave in situ in case they are intended for future use...such a thing of beauty- and hours and hours of hard work just to build them!

I found a dessicated corpse of a long eared bat a few years back and kept it in the cellar to show peeps, but it seems to have gone. Amazing little thing.
Regurgitated owl pellets are utterly fascinating...and the brill thing is that we have loads of them around at the moment!

I love showing the 'little people' who come here on hols with their parents from the towns and cities. Even the parents find them fascinating.

Our hand reared baby hedgehogs went down a treat too ( not often anyone gets the chance to stroke the soft furry face and chin of a hedgehog.

Don't you just love nature???

( apart from when it munches it's way through your most precious of crops!!!)

[Scarlet]

Nests I tend to leave in situ in case they are intended for future use...such a thing of beauty- and hours and hours of hard work just to build them!

I usually do too but I had 4 trees cut down last Autumn and each one had a box on it - they were all cleaned out and put out in different spots.

[Nicos]

** warning!!!!

A few years ago my OH peered into an empty nest box to check if the blue tit chicks had all gone...they had, but the fleas which had been living in there hadn't!

And guess what??..yup- they all jumped out and landed in his beard!!!!...eeeeewwww



Ya'v just gotta laff ain't ya?? ! * scrat, scrat!