Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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Dour scene with large blue dragonfly and shadow of King Arthur dismounting with Excalibur
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1
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Is there a bee that's been sighted in Capel that could wipe out bee population did I hear ?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Kestrel watches the wildlife.
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Bob Whysman
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Many flocks of migrating geese seen recently but this goose decided to walk!
Seen crossing the road today:
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Between Limes Road and the Beaconsfield end of Barton Path this evening (approximately 17:45) there were five moor-hens, at least half a dozen ducks and one of the little egrets was back.
Wish I'd had a photographic device.
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Juvenile cormorant enjoying the high-life.
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Jan Higgins
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A real good bird's eye view.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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What I used to love is the evening visit of the badger who used to chomp some food with the visiting fox
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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This is about the non-sighting of wildlife. For the first time this year I recently dug over the flowerbed which, if I don't, verges on becoming rock-hard. A good 3" down I came across an intact egg that looked for all the world like a hen's egg. I also dug out one of the wooden planters and the same thing happened again. I didn't have the stomach to crack them open to see what if anything was inside. I don't keep poultry and have never seen it on my garden. Does anyone have any explanation?
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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How strange, I know squirrels and foxes eat eggs could one have buried one for future food?
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Button wrote:This is about the non-sighting of wildlife. For the first time this year I recently dug over the flowerbed which, if I don't, verges on becoming rock-hard. A good 3" down I came across an intact egg that looked for all the world like a hen's egg. I also dug out one of the wooden planters and the same thing happened again. I didn't have the stomach to crack them open to see what if anything was inside. I don't keep poultry and have never seen it on my garden. Does anyone have any explanation?
Could they be snakes eggs Button as they bury their eggs? Can you upload an image of them along with their approximate size?
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Jan: due to chronic marble loss, I hadn't thought of something else burying them and we do get squirrels regularly and a fox occasionally.
Bob: I certainly hope not! I'm afraid I put them out with the food waste, but they were non-speckled brown and the size and shape of a medium to large hen's egg.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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I'm sure adders and smooth snakes lay young, not eggs. So that would leave the grass snake, which would probably burst if it tried to lay a hen's egg.
Maybe another reptile. Have you checked for crocodiles?
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Button- Location: Dover
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No, but there is a curious ticking noise coming from outside...
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Reginald Barrington
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It will be foxes. We find them regularly at one of our customers properties, in borders and planters. They have them on cctv burying them, apparently always shortly before dawn?
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Thanks for that, Reg!
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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This is true, it cost more to feed all the wildlife in the garden then us both.
ha ha
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