Thank you all.
Jenny, I put out peanuts for everyone, which I crush slightly and sprinkle on the grass. The collared doves love these, the
Badgers enjoy them as a starter, and the foxes relish them. The most glorious sight is a young
Fox scrunching on peanuts, his eyes screwed up in ecstasy.
I make peanut butter sandwiches for the
Badgers, which they like very much, the foxes also like them. Sometimes I put out a sprinkle of sultanas, which lots of the birds and animals seem to like. Any apples or bananas past their best go out, and they are always gone by the morning, but I don't know who has them.
I put out live mealworms for all the fledgeling birds, and sunflower hearts for the birds, and the baby squirrels love them too.
I make fat cakes with animal fat and various things in winter. And I put out pastry scraps.
Niger for the goldfinches of course and mixed seed, which has incidentally made a wonderful meadow of my garden, with oats, barley, wheat, and flax.
I hide eggs around the garden which
Badgers and foxes both enjoy.
I make jam sandwiches for the foxes, which is also a useful way of giving them homeopathic mange remedy, as nothing else relishes jam sandwiches like foxes do.
And a dish of fresh water on the ground as well as the bird baths.
I was putting out dog food for the foxes but it was attracting the very large local cat population, and I feared for the fledgling birds, so I stopped that.
There is a young tabby cat that hangs out with the
Badgers at nights. She sits among them as they wander about, and watches them with great interest. They never acknowledge each other.
The
Badgers and foxes still eat a large amount of worms, snails and slugs, as well as
Slow Worms I think. My 'lawn' is full of '
Badger-nose' craters! I think there is a large
Badger population so I don't feel I am doing anything wrong with the sandwiches, as I don't make vast quantities, and they are the healthiest looking
Badgers you could ever hope to meet. Quite excessively glossy!
I haven't started feeding the bees yet!
