Manky Monkey Motors

Thought we would start a thread where people can put photos of stuff and wildlife in your gardens.

This morning, (sorry no photos) we saw a mummy Woodpecker feeding her baby, a duck and I fed it park style. Throwing bread at it  ;D and various other birds.
I also picked my first home grown strawberry

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Then sat and watched the birds.

A Jackdaw
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A mummy Magpie and her baby
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Mummy Magpie
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A Jay with 1 nut
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The same Jay being a pig
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One of our Fuschia plants
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A Rose
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and finally a little birdie
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wow very cool taz
The only wildlife in my garden is me trying to drink my first cup of tea of the day  :o ;D

As I'm sat here Dave keeps popping out to have a munch. Mum thinks he is a Wood Mouse but I'm not sure. He's tiny and a brown colour with very small ears and very dark brown nose, ears and huge eyes. Every morning we get Squirrels visiting and they are funny to watch them playing. This morning when manky woke there were 2 Squirrels in the bird food and a Duck on the floor quite happily munching away  ;D

Just seen 2 Daves at the same time. The other must be Davetta  ;D

I gotta get my ass down to see you guys and all this wonderful wildlife

I'm sure you have some wonderful stuff you just don't see it. You have your cats and if you got a bird feeder, (out of moggy reach) you's see the birds too. You'll be supprised what is out there if you look long enough. I get to see this stuff as I smoke and I go outside for my ciggies so my laptop goes with me and I just sit and watch the world go by with one eye and the other watching you lot  ;D Wildlife everywhere  ;D

ah i didnt know you was a smoker  ;D tut  tut lol
i have a bird feeder in my front garden and get to sit here on the pc watching all the birds feed
i also have a hedgehog that comes in the house and help him self to the cats biscuits lol

 ;D See we don't have a hedgehog that does that. That's quite cool you'll have to try and get a photo of it. In the 5 years or so I've been here I've only ever seen one and that was after Manky moved in.

heres a pic its not very good the little bugger growls at ya if you go near him pmsl
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That's wicked. We want one  ;D

you wouldnt if you heard him growl first time he did i about jumped out my skin at 2 am in the morning lol
heres a couple of pics of the bird feeder in my front garden
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We had Starlings as they had made a nest in our roof. The mummy was quite funny to watch and used to throw tantrums if there were not mealworms for her  ;D They's all gone now and is very quiet in the garden.

I woke up one night to a lot of noise and rushed outside thinking there were a couple of dogs having a fight in our garden.

There weren't - and all I can say is, in answer to the age-old question "How do hedgehogs make love?" the answer is, very VERY loudly !!!!!!!

lol  ;D

we dont have a garden a such but the other day we were woken up a 6 by a very strange noise , lots of thumping, screeming a screetching ( put your dirty minds away ) turns out our indoor cat had managed to get hold of a blackdird and if its possible he actually looked like he was showing it off to us in a "look at what i got kindo way" . its ok though when i jump up he let it go and i managed to get it back out of a window, we can only think it had been in the flat for a couple of days as we hadnt had the windows open ( it get cold up here in scotland ) .

 

Ok some more photos of plants in our garden.

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Our Strawberrys and our baby Marrow plants.

phowwaaaa gis a strawberry  ;D

They are yummy. Munched on a few after I took the photo.  ;D

all i got in my yard are slabs and kids  >:(

This is the "wildlife" in our garden at the moment,me digging out the foundations for our extention

Just now I was sat in the garden going through Janie and Rick's photos from today and heard a very loud noise. Looked up to see that there was a huge hot air balloon. Think it landed nearby as it was getting lower as it went overhead.

Fred, those shorts are pretty wild!  :o
Not quite in our garden, but just nipped out to the local shop for more Diet Cokes & Jaffa Cakes & this was the view from the end of the road.  8)

thats a nice shot manky

Out of the car window, sat in a bus stop.  :D

the best pics m8

Always keep the little digi-camera in the glove box.  ;)

We seem to have an awful lot of mice in our garden.  Well I wouldn't mind if they were in the garden but the cats keep bringing them in, then I have to rescue them and let them loose under the shed where the cats can't go!

Funny you shoud say that so do we. I've notice loads of holes in the flower beds and raised areas on the lawn where they tunnel along but they sometimes venture into the house by themselves, (no help of a cat). I do have an electronic zapper to get them. I don't mind them in the garden but NOT in the house. Our mice learn the hard way.

and what did we mice ever do to you  ;D ;D ;D

Poo all over the work surfaces in the kitchen and munch through anything they can lay their teeth into  :P

Who? Mouse? Remind me not to invite him to stay.  :o

i almost spat my tea all over the keyboard then manky pmsl  ;D ;D ;D

Again, not quite in the garden, but at the end of our road. Nipped out for a jacket spud & a drink at Newlands Corner at lunchtime. A local beauty spot, popular at weekends with bikers & classic car guys.
Very peaceful during the week, although there were still a dozen or so bikes there. Nice view.

ar bloody flat lands ;D

 ;D Took these yesterday morning before work.

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There is a Woodpecker on the feeder as I write this but I haven't got my camers. Typical.

very cool pics taz
mr black bird checking something out

Ta very muchly mousy  ;D

Taken just now through the kitchen door.

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oh cool  ;D

more from today.

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oh you lucky sod i love the squirrel

We just had a family of 4 on the feeders. I love seeing them too and they are so funny when playing but they do distroy the feeders.

Well they're not welcome up here,we shoot them cos they chase our BRITISH reds away. In fact there are resteraunts that have them on the menu

I would love to have some Reds here but as you say the grey ones chase them away. We sat for ages watching a baby squirrel trying to eat from the feeder and it was so funny as he was just a bit too small to reach but he had a good go and got there in the end. I was crying it was so funny. He wasn't at all phased by Manky and I being there.

squirels make good hats  ;D

    shoot 'em, shoot 'em all, shoot everything that even looks like it will eat your wiring stock or nest in your big bag of heat shrink sleeving that you have kept in good condition under the bench just waiting for that special job.  >:(

Sounds like you have rodent issues Mr Brock.

hoy i had nothing to do with it  ;D

Brock, you've gotta get the hang of posting pics mate.
Another on Steve's behalf:

Not quite in the garden but not far from the shed. Are they the most giganticist poppys in the world? Unfortunately the flowers have all fallen off in the last day or so but they were quite impressive.

   not a particularly interesting photo without the flowers but they are big, there is a bit of a raised bank thing in there but it's not quite three feet high and the plants are better than ten foot on top of that.
   I should point out that Mrs. "B" is shown for purposes illustrative of scale only and no warranties are expressed, nor should they be implied as to her fitness for purpose or suitability as opium warlord

The other day we had a little visitor in the front garden. A baby bunny. Don't know how it got there or where it's gone now but it was in the garden most of the day.

This morning we woke up to the Jackdaws and a squirrel raiding the bird food. We used to have loads of feeders but the Jackdaws have become a bit of a pest so we have removed the big feeders and we mix the different food stuffs into a tub and only put a couple of scoops out at a time so the little birds get something to eat. We looked out the window to see the tub on it's side with it's contents all over the patio and a very greedy squirrel happily stuffing it's face. Judging by the size of his tummy he was a very full little bugger when he ran waddled off.

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Looks like he's swallowed a beach ball!

round is good :)

One of the best corners in our garden. Looks better in the flesh as the photo just doesn't do all the colours justice.

Only wildlife in my back garden is me! ;D

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All I have in my back garden is weeds and long grass and possibly a load of illegal immigrants the grass is so tall who knows what's there.  ::)

It's handy having the laptop and camera in the shed with me. These little fellows haven't been in the garden for a long time that I know of so I'm well chuffed that they are coming back. Just taken.

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Them green birdies Taz...what are they? They certainly don't look like native Brit birdies

They are Ring Necked Parakeets. We have a very small family living on the estate. Some counties there are so many they outnumber pigeons and are classed as pests but here they are brilliant and don't bother anyone. We love seeing them in the garden.

Back again today. Only about 15 feet away from the back door but moving too fast to get a decent photo. Also had a Nuthatch on the feeder, plus a dozen pheasants wandering around at the bottom of the garden.

Those Birds are awesome! I want one! lol

My garden is done already, but here a few from the yard and back deck..

Frog on a pecan nut...

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A couple Dragons!

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A Dragonfly!

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Squirrel Stalking his prey!

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Capturing his prey!

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Enjoying his catch!

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Wow! Beautiful photos.
No dragons here that I know of. We've got dragonflies on the lake though. Your squirrels look a bit leaner & fitter than our wobbly ones!

Its all that stalking they have to do for the food...  ;D

The Lizards are everywhere around here.. I love them..hehe

Makes you jump when your sitting out and they jump on you though!

 :) No stalking necessary here -they just help themselves from the bird food storage tub. We've got a tame pheasant called Fred who comes to the back door & taps on it to be fed. I think word's gotten round that we're open 24 hours & free!

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That's a nice shot K.

Love the shot there Kustom!

I sell on some photo stock sites, and i wouldn't think twice of adding that to my portfolio if i had one like it!

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Two parakeets & two squirrels on the bird feeder this morning. They cost us a fortune in bird food but we love seeing them in the garden.
Grubby kitchen windows, plus shakey camera hand equal fuzzy photo.

Wild Suzuki Hibernating, other than that a big fat nothing. ;D

Nice big garden though -plenty of room for parking trikes n stuff. :D Got a gang of 4 pheasants on the patio here now too. Don't like to frighten them all off but I'm late for the drag races at Avon Park so gotta go. See you lot later.  ;)

Our little green friends have now increased in numbers. while I've been sat in the garden we had 5 at once come down to feed and 4 flew over head. So there are 9 living on the estate. Will have to get another feeder on a pole I think for them.

There are 3 sat in the garden with me as I'm posting this now  ;D

Now 4  ;D

Five.

I wish! ;D

More wildlife -a little frog living under our back doorstep.

Wait a mo I have found something ......................... a slug

 ;D ;D ;D We have loads of them and they are huge. It's not suprising the hedgehog looks so fat.  ;D

Wanna buy a parakeet?  ;)

What flavor is it?

Albatross.

??????????????????????? ;D

 ;D ;D Don't start that again  ;D

Start wot?  ;D

helicopter

Moose

nude women

Kustom do you want a lodger?

yes would love one could do with some money

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Daves latest purchase!  Cheap to feed and they make no mess!!!

Nice colour.  :P We've got a rose that matches it.

Taken at Disney World two weeks ago.. They are freaky looking up close..


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That's weird! Looks less life-like than Dave's!

spooky eyes.

Woody Woodpecker & Secret Squirrel.

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A brace of Phesants anyone  ;D