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Chocky Wrote:

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> Worried that the

> fountain wall is too steep for them to get out.


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I'm not a frog expert, and I can't remember what the fountain is like, but could you get a piece of wood of appropriate length and prop it against the wall so they can climb up it?


But I have been amazed in the past at how frogs can clamber up things, so I wouldn't worry too much :)

Chocky Wrote:

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> Are there any frog experts out there? We saw frogs

> and froglets in the Sexby Gardens fountain in

> Peckham Rye Park on Sunday. Worried that the

> fountain wall is too steep for them to get out.

> I've emailed Southwark Parks and Friends of

> Peckham Rye but no reponse.


Thanks to Sue for your reassurance!


Someone,kindly, has managed to put a hefty slab of stone in the fountain so even the tiddlers will be able to get out.

Oh dear.


I fear my reassurance was not well founded.


Last week I left a watering can half full of water in the garden overnight (at my daughter's) and in the morning there was a very bloated dead frog in it - presumably he had jumped in and then been unable to get out (though a slightly different situation as obviously in a watering can most of the top is closed off apart from the hole in the middle).


Sorry, frog.

There is also a corner of the Horniman Museum garden devoted to wildlife, if that's nearer for you to reach.


On the topic of wildlife it is an offence to disturb it especially during the breeding cycle.

A 'drastic makeover' would be a disaster for your biodiversity, unless you get someone skilled it will just be the usual, scoured back to minimalism - like nature's something we revere on TV instead.

After reading about logs being taken from woodlands for firewood, I'd rather move them to a secure nature reserve. Have been told about the one by Maxted Road and I know there is a large one in Devonshire Road in Forest Hill. The logs they live/eat in are large, 6ft long each one and 8 of them in total.


The life cycle is 7 years for a stag beetle and most of that is the grub stage. Not sure there would be a safe time to move them?

If all goes to plan, I will be moving around September time but whatever the new owners decide to do with the garden is out of my hands, that's why I'd like to move them, so they have a chance somewhere else.

Following my sighting of a kestrel locally, a friend recommended I add it to the survey http://www.kestrelcount.org/


...and while I am writing, if you have a minute please link to the Plantlife wildflower survey here => http://www.plantlife.org.uk/things_to_do/wildflowers_count/,


this time of year usually great for botany especially once the sun's brought a few things into bloom.

fl0wer Wrote:

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>> ...and while I am writing, if you have a minute

> please read my other post/link to the Plantlife

> wildflower survey, this time of year usually great

> for botany especially once the sun's brought a few

> things into bloom.


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That'll be before Southwark Council (I presume) have sprayed into oblivion all the lovely wild flowers along the edges of the pavements and in the street tree pits. GRRRRRRR. :(

yeknomyeknom Yesterday, 09:16PM said:


Has anyone noticed way more flies than normal? Also wood lice.



Yes. The weather conditions make a 'boom', after weeks of shortage. It is often the way with insects.


Many other creatures will line up to take advantage of sudden generous supplies, e.g. am hopeful for recovering numbers of amphibians, small mammals & insectivorous birds whose young need to feed just now. I heard that a swallow can gather 3,000 mosquitoes in a single day.

mark88 Wrote:

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> Greater spotted woodpecker in our garden on

> Underhill, he loves feeding late in the day after

> the Magpies have gone away.


What may well be one of his offspring just flew into our patio doors and collapsed on the floor looking stunned and confused (or crushed and devalued, who knows?). Once he'd got his wits together he flew off and found a safe spot in a tree though so panic over.

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