How To Discourage Wildlife

Buggins

If anyone has a good idea for keeping snakes out of the garden I would be most grateful. We back onto fields which is lovely but I am totally phobic and, in the past, on sighting one in the garden won't go out there for weeks. I know it's ridiculous but does anyone have any ideas (apart from therapy)
Thanks

Errata

Concrete your garden and make raised beds by all means, but all the wildlife you mention will continue to visit it - even the flies.

milkydrink

computerwoman wrote: »

I am not miserable about it.
the bat's
I just carry a tennis racket with me.....sorry but I don't like them when they are flapping around you.

I wouldn't like bats around me either. I don't even like big birds flying around me:eek: .

Big cats on the Yorkshire Moors:eek: :eek: :eek:

~Chameleon~

Buggins wrote: »

If anyone has a good idea for keeping snakes out of the garden I would be most grateful. We back onto fields which is lovely but I am totally phobic and, in the past, on sighting one in the garden won't go out there for weeks. I know it's ridiculous but does anyone have any ideas (apart from therapy)
Thanks

Keep your grass very short, they hate travelling across open spaces, and don't leave piles of wood or other things lying around that they might want to make a home beneath.

Where do you live as there are only two native species in the UK as far as I remember and they're mostly found in the south/south-east of England - the grass snake (totally harmless) and the adder - which although is slightly venomous I think it is quite rare to get bitten unless you unwittingly stand on one or something.

Most of the time a snake will disappear away from you before you've even noticed it as it will feel the vibrations of your footsteps

milkydrink

Buggins wrote: »

If anyone has a good idea for keeping snakes out of the garden I would be most grateful. We back onto fields which is lovely but I am totally phobic and, in the past, on sighting one in the garden won't go out there for weeks. I know it's ridiculous but does anyone have any ideas (apart from therapy)
Thanks

You are joking right:eek: :eek: :eek:
I'm not stupid I know there are snakes in the UK, BUT I didn't think they were in areas where gardens were, I thought they would be in remote rural areas:eek: :eek: :eek:

So apart from frogs, I now need to watch out for snakes:eek: :eek: :eek:

beer2006

How can frogs hurt you?

I shouldn't worry about snakes too much I've been outside for quite a bit of my life and I've only seen a couple, the one in my compost bin a few years ago made me jump a bit though

When I read the first post, I actually thought it was a joke, I'm trying to encourage frogs and hedgehogs into my garden and the bats eat the insects...... bees pollinate, its a whole ecosystem, you want to see the birds? You better have some reason for them to be there.

I have loads of bats here and at the last house and I've never known them cause any problems, they seem to be quite happy keeping off the huge humans.

I want a hedgehog!

Jayar

Wish I was nearer you Computerwoman. I'd come and collect them all and give them a good home in my garden. All except the wasps and flies of course, you can keep them LOL

Buggins

Thanks for your replies - I live in the South East so I am guess am a bit more vulnerable. Maybe it's just me - that's paranoia!!!

Errata

Unless it was a adder, quite unlikely, it was probably a grass snake which is just a very large worm.

V_Chic_Chick

Hedgehogs, frogs, toads and bats will help keep the wasps, bees and flies down! It's called an ecosystem.

For pete's sake, I have two nests of house martens living in the eaves, probably no more than a metre away from my pillow! Yes, I can hear them, and yes they crap on my windowsill, but I love watching them.

Have we really become so detatched from nature and where our food comes from that this sort of attitude is commonplace?