How To Discourage Wildlife

smartarse

All these things are wonderful! When you're dead and buried, these creatures will be plaguing the next person who lives where you do! Live with them, enjoy them and manage them. I'm envious because we're trying to encourage even more into our garden.......................hey, maybe we live next door! Send them our way;)

computerwoman

!!!!!! wrote: »

All these things are wonderful! When you're dead and buried, these creatures will be plaguing the next person who lives where you do! Live with them, enjoy them and manage them. I'm envious because we're trying to encourage even more into our garden.......................hey, maybe we live next door! Send them our way;)

all I have in my back garden is butterfly bushes a forythia bush, afew rhodadendrens, and come conifers.
but the front garden is amass of different plants............maybe that's where they are trying to get to..........:D

oldandhappy

We have open land next to us and did have to the frontage as well until last year when the land was built on...The whole reason we purchased this place was the location. Near the sea and the countryside with all the amenities we need as ex townies!!!!
We soon found out not everyone loves or even likes wildlife. Our next door neighbour was shooting at the baby squirrels the first season we moved here and when we showed are displeasure is a very displeasureable way his explaination was just to stop them ever breeding again...errhhhh...and then he was moaning and whinging about the badgers digging holes in his lawn and well you can imagine what he thinks of foxes and and and and...........
We soon found out that his wife had a phobia with Cats..our 1st love... dont you just know when you are not going to get on.
Our watercourse we created in the front garden attracts all kinds of wildlife but 'she' said a while back that the slight trickling noise makes her rush to the loo..erhhhh
Not that we really speak anymore these days... because when they asked last summer if we could just cut a few feet off some of our trees because of the leaves falling on his new shed in the front garden... at this point exploded afraid to say...
We find the bats seem to hang around near trees but confess to knowing very little about them....................now where is that manual on how to discourage humans in any way or form...:rolleyes:

gremlin

susieb wrote: »

Wow, what a thread.
The op would hate it here, we have wild rabbits (hundreds - strip all the plants) bats, deer, and snakes, both adders and grass, but its not often you see an adder, scary when you do though.

That sounds fantastic

I want to live where you live got a spare room?:D

Jayar

You know how they say "live and let live"?
Well, you know what, that applies to us humans too. Thank goodness we are all different and we all have our different likes and dislikes. Just because they are not the same as yours does not make them wrong.
Take my point?

margaretclare

I've just watched a half-hour programme on BBC1 in the 'Saving Planet Earth' series. This was all about the wildlife that lives in London - peregrine falcons, otters and....bats! A lady who has a bat box on the back wall of her house (like our sparrow-boxes) said you can have endless fun in the evenings watching them. This is just what the OP was complaining about 'bats not letting her enjoy her garden' yet this lady talked about the fun and enjoyment she got from watching them.

This is the link to the programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/06/04/jenny_clark_bats_feature.shtml

Margaret

DKLS

Many many people would consider the OP very lucky to have such esteemed visitors, WHatever you do to your garden its hard fighting nature, as my ongoing battle with the ants proves.

The Native American Indians used to believe that animals and birds were messengers and had a message for the person who saw them, try a google search for Animal totums, may be fun.

Whitby wouldn't be the same without bats, they go together like wimbledon and terrible weather.

And whenever in Yorkshire you should all know "stay off the moors stick to the path" :rotfl:

bookemdano

computerwoman wrote: »

Hi
how can I discourage wildlife coming into my garden.
hedge hog's
frog's/toad's
bat's
wasp's
bee's
fly's
they are all becoming a pain to live with.
the dog's think that the hedge hog's are football's and try to pick them up
one succeeded tonight and brought it in and put it on the living room rug.
the other dog took one into his bed and it was running around the kitchen and out the door like it was on speed.
was sat playing with next door's kitten then frightened the poor little thing like mad cos I screamed cos a huge frog/toad jumped underneath me.
it !!!!!! me up like hell!!!!
then we have bat's!!!!!

yes well we would wouldn't we
whitby the home of dracula and goth centre.

can't go out on a night as they are there getting you
freaky little fcuker's.
help me
what can I do to discourage them
I don't put food out
but I don't want to harm them
cw.
we also have dragonfly's but they are not a problem.

Your attitude stinks. All the wildlife has more right to be in your garden than you. Tough if you do not like it. Why don't you move to a high rise block of flats. Is your name Victor Meldrew?? So glad you are not my neighbour!!!!!!!!!!!!

margaretclare

bookemdano wrote: »

Your attitude stinks. All the wildlife has more right to be in your garden than you. Tough if you do not like it. Why don't you move to a high rise block of flats.

You won't escape even in a high-rise block of flats. According to the BBC1 'Saving Planet Earth' programme I referred to last evening, there are peregrine falcons nesting on high-rise buildings in central London!

Over the years I've known many people who lived in high-rise blocks of flats who had gardens on their balconies and all kinds of creatures used to visit them, to their great delight. Most people are NOT so far removed from their peasant ancestry and love to keep in contact with nature in whatever form they can. I remember a lady I used to visit when I was a district nurse in the 1970s. She spent most of her life in a wheelchair and used to spend many happy hours watching the birds on her balcony. She had bird-feeders , water containers and it was just a pleasure for her and a distraction from the pain she was in 24/7. There are people who put the rest of us to shame.

I couldn't live without some kind of contact with nature. As I speak there are bees in the lavender bushes outside the front window and yet there are people who say 'oh, we have bees, how can we get rid of them?' Some people's whole attitude is 'get rid'. Well, just wait long enough and they'll all die off and leave us, and what then? This is what 'saving planet Earth' is all about.

Margaret

olly300

DKLS wrote: »

Many many people would consider the OP very lucky to have such esteemed visitors, WHatever you do to your garden its hard fighting nature, as my ongoing battle with the ants proves.

She is.:mad: If you pave over your garden you will not get rid of the slugs and snails but you will get rid of the creatures who eat them for you.

I get the boring towny animals like squirrels, foxes, crows, magpies and pigeons. The squirrels are annoying cos they dig everything up that is newly planted but the foxes can be entertaining and they like stealing things such as shoes and gloves. The magpies like decorating my windscreen after I've washed my car.

I want to put in a water feature but a neighbour's 2 year old likes visiting my garden to look at the flowers.

Mind you there are suppose to be parakeets flying around in my area but I've yet to see them.