General Chat

Very strange this year, all this rain and yet hardly a slug or snail in sight.

We haven't had hedgehogs in the garden for several years now..so must be the toads.

In fact the only snails I can see are up in the Laburnum..very odd
:-S

Glad the Bobtails are OK :-D

Don't strain yourself lifting that fence :-)

One of my cats has befriended a young hedgehog (last years brood) that stayed with it's mother until (I presume) she had this years brood, and the cat won't come in at night :-|

They're not daft are they. The bobtails also know just where to go so that we can see themand give them some food. :-D

But the little b**gers get all our low growing tomatoes and unprotected strawberries :-|

Just realised - the crushed snails aren't there in the morning - I have a sneaky feeling the hedgehogs & sloworms wait for me to crush their food for them!!

Why bother with live snails when that silly human can kill and de-shell them for you :-0

lol Maggie :-)

Bobtail's sound a lot more useful than the sloworms and hedgehogs I have in my garden - I'm still innundated with slugs & snails - and, of course, morally can't use easy killing methods (like slug pellets) to remove them for fear of harming the (declining) hedgehogs and (protected) sloworms.

Walking down the path in the rain in the dark produces a ghastly crunching sound - I can't see the bl**dy snails - and sliding on a slug is very nasty!!

lol Ann. Glad your OH enjoyed the tour.

Bobtails are fine and youcan actually buy them as pets, but ours have just wandered in form the wild. We used to be surrounded by bush, but housing has now encroached.

We also until a few years ago had kangaroos which used to visit and eat the grass on our front lawn. These have now disappeared.

thank God - I don't want those things in my garden thank you - I'll take a hedgehog for the slugs any time

my lovely OH toured Australia coast to coast with Pendyrus Male Choir - arguably the best Wesh Choir - they were sponsored by Sydney Festival of Music and travelled coast to coast starting off in Sydney and ended up in Perth - they had a whale of a time

Have a cousin Adelaide and two in Sydney

Ignoring Suzanne's rant :-D as they taste just like greasy chicken and their scales are difficult to take off, which is why I prefer small furry animals. Much easier to prepare :-D

Ann, we live in Western Australia, although originally from the UK. We live in a place called Australind, which is about 170 kms south of Perth

Allan

may one ask where you live Allan?

ATTENTION all bobtails
and your friends will be sbtailsALLEN IS trying to get you into a false sense of security,he will nurture you and your friends,and then when you thought everything was ok he will pounce,you and your friends will be on the bbq before you know it,GET AWAY NOW, :-D

Are safe!

During a severe storm two or three weeks ago, a side fence was blown down and fell onto an area of the garden which we knew was used as a nesting area by our bob tailed lizards.

Not being sure of their fate and the fencing being too heavy to lift we just had to accept fate.

Lo and behold, yesterday there were four of them (I think that there are about six in the garden) in a patch of garden near the back of the house enjoying the afternoon sun and wanting to be fed. Chopped some tomato for them which they ate and then disappeared back to where ever.

The reason that I am uncertain as to numbers is that these are wild bobtails who seem to have taken a liking to our garden.

On a positive note, they are harmless and also love to eat snails, wich they do with a revolting crunching noise. We now have a garden which is virtually snail free.

Allan