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Wildlife on the rob

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These two photos were taken quietly from the back door this morning: a parakeet and later a squirrel enjoying the seeds of the giant sunflower at the far end of the garden. It seemed that these two took it in turns to snack on the plant for most of the day and all sorts of acrobatics went on to get the seeds. We had no idea the seeds were such a delicacy!

Then again we remembered this picture from many moons ago, crazy stuff!And while we’re thinking of thieving wildlife, here’s a squirrel with a scone, from the days when we had apple trees as a fence. Luckily it wasn’t our scone.

Blame Jimi Hendrix or Humphrey Bogart for these!

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Growing giant sunflowers come with various different problems. You have to stake them up to stop them snapping in the wind, keep the slugs and snails off them and there’s also the pigeons and squirrels to contend with. Now the Peckham parakeets are onto them.

It’s not the best photo as it had to be taken clandestinely but there’s at least three birds on the nearest sunflower the one with the multiple heads and one perched on the one furthest away (which hasn’t any flowers) on lookout duty.

It’s funny as when these birds appeared the pigeons and squirels were nowhere to be seen, the same as the cats. You just can’t win! More on those pesky parkeets and the origins of where they may have come from here.

Big up the dirt!

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Here’s last night’s episode of The Dirt on Fab Radio International featuring our very own “Sounds from the south.” Have a listen to the show as there’s a lot of mad stuff on it including news that the Peckham Parakeet has a northern relative!

The show is available as a podcast here and “Sounds” appears at 14.40 minutes in. Thanks very much again to Simon, Ricky and Paul at The Dirt for having us! For episode one of the new format of the show have a listen here and “sounds” appears in the first few minutes if you’re interested. The Dirt, a gardening programme like no other, indeed!

Pic above: Two “playful” Peckham Parakeets in Vic Godard’s back garden trying to dismantle the bird feeder.