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Has anyone else noticed the rat population in Peckham park has exploded? I used to spot one a week, now I'm seeing three in ten minutes.

 

I don't know about the Park or Rye specifically but suspect that the rat population in these parts has been increasing since the pandemic lockdown. I've certainly noticed more of them around over the last year or two. Less people and thus less restaurants/cafes/takeaways/market food stalls etc. open in the "city" combined with more people now working from home means that there's less grub for rats up in town and more available here. They're merely following the path of least resistance to accessible food.


The local foxes seem healthier and far less scrawny nowadays, maybe for the same reason.

Talking about rats any suggestions for cheap rat and rat with long fluffy tails containers to keep my bird food in, in the shed. They chew through paper and plastic. The rat in the shed was dispatched.

 

Try metal containers? They will chew through anything else. Metal dustbins or incinerators (block up the hole with wire or something?)


Or else somehow ratproof the whole shed, but that might prove rather more difficult.


Or put something strong smelling near the birdfood so the rats and the fluffy tailed ones can't smell the birdfood?

Yes metal containers but I spend enough on feed and don't want to spend loads on these. The blighters don't get often ie opportunist.

I'll continue checking out thePosh Junk shop for cheap recepticles.

 

Use an old bread bin. Metal or ceramic ones will be impregnable!


We (very occasionally) put out half a tin of dog food for foxes in the cold weather but it's up on a small bird bath type thing so that rats can't get to it. Never bothered leaving a camera on it to film them although it's invariably gone by morning. See foxes up and down the road quite regularly.


This weekend is the RSPB Garden Birdwatch if anyone is interested...

https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/

Yes metal containers but I spend enough on feed and don't want to spend loads on these. The blighters don't get often ie opportunist.

I'll continue checking out thePosh Junk shop for cheap recepticles.

 

You could try posting in the 'Wanted' section on here? Somebody might be glad to have an old metal container taken off their hands?

  • 4 weeks later...
I had a wonderful surprise today. Firstly I spotted a jay; then it flew to a nearby branch and turned out to be one of a pair and then I realised that just in front of them was a woodpecker! This was on the footpath through from the football club to the Greendale. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to get a picture!

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