T4tomo
Legendary Member
do you have a copy?
What do rabbits not eat?
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do you have a copy?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Are your plants in beds, raised beds, or planters?
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
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- 52 Festive Road
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
I live near a nuclear power plant… things get odd.
pterodactyls have been a problem as of late.
and then there’s this little guy…
That's my nightmares sorted for the next year.
Psamathe
Über Member
The trouble with rabbits is they quickly get to plague levels and that means even more off-balance wildlife. Depending on where you are they often have no natural predators hence excessive populations.
It's a massive issue with our wildlife in that the environment we have created created a massively out-of-balance outcome. eg I'm rural, edge of tiny village and we had OK wildlife until a few years ago when neighbours got 3 cats all of whom are obsessive hunters. I used to get maybe 100 video clips each night of wildlife on my trailcam, we have owls, bats, regular buzzard in garden, etc. Then cats and now nothing on trailcam as all small rodents hovered-up, owls disappeared, not seen buzzards since few months after cat arrivals ... Used to get a fabulous variety of birds in garden, now just pigeons. Plus plague of rabbits and deer (destroying trees planted). It's become a wildlife desert.
Add light pollution from townsfolk moving to their rural idyll (as I also now have) and eg whilst we used to get fair number of noctule and pipistrelle bats, now none. And light pollution might be at night but it drives all sorts of things away, changes way plants grow and they become less palatable to insects ...
It's a massive issue with our wildlife in that the environment we have created created a massively out-of-balance outcome. eg I'm rural, edge of tiny village and we had OK wildlife until a few years ago when neighbours got 3 cats all of whom are obsessive hunters. I used to get maybe 100 video clips each night of wildlife on my trailcam, we have owls, bats, regular buzzard in garden, etc. Then cats and now nothing on trailcam as all small rodents hovered-up, owls disappeared, not seen buzzards since few months after cat arrivals ... Used to get a fabulous variety of birds in garden, now just pigeons. Plus plague of rabbits and deer (destroying trees planted). It's become a wildlife desert.
Add light pollution from townsfolk moving to their rural idyll (as I also now have) and eg whilst we used to get fair number of noctule and pipistrelle bats, now none. And light pollution might be at night but it drives all sorts of things away, changes way plants grow and they become less palatable to insects ...
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Are you suggesting the cats have eaten the Owls and the Buzzards?
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
In spite of living in a major city area there are tons of rabbits, skunks nd possums in this area. The possums courtesy of global warming. This has lead to a lot of foxes setting up shop and now coyote are a problem.
idiots think it’s cool to feed the darn things and then the city has to put them down because they get so comfortable in town they start sampling the old folks sunning in front of the retirement home ( no kidding, someone got lightly chewed )
they were here first so we need to learn to get along.
idiots think it’s cool to feed the darn things and then the city has to put them down because they get so comfortable in town they start sampling the old folks sunning in front of the retirement home ( no kidding, someone got lightly chewed )
they were here first so we need to learn to get along.
N0bodyOfTheGoat
Senior Member
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- Hampshire, UK
No idea if it applies to rabbits too, but I was shocked to learn recently that deer are opportunistic carnivores!😱
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Psamathe
Über Member
No. Cats have eaten (or rather killed) all the lower level in the food chain so the owls and buzzards have moved away to somewhere they can find food.
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annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
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Thanks, it's not very expensive. I'll order a copy.
No but it often come's up on GQT and other gardening shows/ phone in's when people ask for advice. It's always one I recommend trying when i've been professionally asked in the past.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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- Land of confusion
Kitten kong . The goodies 😁,
