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Wildlife on our site

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Date	Title
Jun 1 2008	Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tails? So which are welcome garden visitors and which are not?

Nov 18 2007	Ladybirds - under threat? Our native ladybirds are under threat from foreign invaders.

Sep 25 2007	The Grey Squirrel So who has been stealing our hazel nuts?

Jun 30 2007	Lucky Newt! The star of our video had a lucky escape. It was spotted in the soil as my husband approached it with a rotavator.

Jun 7 2007	Marauding Wood Pigeons This year wood pigeons have waged war on our plots by devastating our brassica plants.

Apr 12 2007	Unlucky Sparrowhawks This week I seem to have seen quite a lot of sparrowhawks.

Apr 1 2007	Wild Flowers on the Plot Wild flowers growing on derelict allotments plots.

Jan 6 2007	Slugs - enemy number 1? Are all slugs bad news in the garden or on the plot?

Nov 24 2006	Encouraging Blue Tits onto the Allotment Blue tits on the allotment or garden are helpful as they feed their young with thousands of caterpillars during the spring and summer. Encouraging blue tits expanded and updated to show how to make a nest box. Some extra video too.

Nov 21 2006	Toads in the compost When we spread out our compost heap we were surprised to uncover over two dozen toads. These were carefully rehoused under a pile of straw.

Oct 22 2006	A Partridge in the Green Manure This partridge was spotted on our plot resting among the green manure.

Oct 22 2006	Why make a log pile? As we had acquired a pile of sawn off tree stumps and branches on site, we decided to create a log pile under a large evergreen shrub

Jun 10 2006	Hedgehog Family A family of hedgehogs nesting in a pile of straw.