Or guesses. I have had two jugs of holly covered in bright red berries in the house since before Christmas; they have given me great pleasure but now the leaves have begun to fall.
Although I know that the birds love holly berries but never seem to eat them once they have dropped them on the ground, I scattered the stalks of berried holly around the bird table and waited to see what happened. Although we had twelve male blackbirds under (and on) the table, none of them seemed to approach the berried stalks.
When we went to bed all the berries were still there. When I drew the curtains back this morning all the berries had been eaten. My question is - what had eaten the berries overnight. A possible guess I suppose is mice. Any ideas?
Monday 16 January 2017
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Mice, hedgehog? If you had had snow you could see the footprints!
Mice or voles I imagine, hedgehogs should be hibernating.
In answer to your comment on my blog Pat, it is brighter and dry here today but only 5 degrees. I cancelled my early morning walk this morning because my arthritic feet hurt too much but will be doing a two hour, monthly, bird count on the marsh this afternoon. At your age Pat, I expect to be sitting by the fire permanently in winter, good luck to you.
The key point is that some hungry thing found a dinner!
Bears, could be black or grizzly.
Well Pat our guess is a raccoon but do you have raccoons over there??? Hugs! deb
Perhaps squirrels, they'll pretty much eat anything.
Could be a bear. Many people don't realise it but bears are very partial to a range of berries.
I'd hazard a guess at squirrels they seem to eat anything and everything they can get their little paws on.
I'm about to put out the nuts in shells that are over from Christmas for the squirrels ..... I can't get into the bl**dy things perhaps they will be able to ;-)
Fox?
The Farmer.
Birds! In the light of the house, they potter around you know
Thanks for the answers you give although bears is a bit questionable
Hedgehogs are indeed hibernating - and I am afraid we don't have raccoons.
Anothr lot will go out in the morning.
If there are tasty goodies on the bird table the birds will leave the holly berries until there is nothing else. Maybe they got up earlier than you and before you had replenished the table..
I would assume, mice, rats, squirrels or baggers ?
I would say Javelinas but you do not have them.
cheers, parsnip
Now a question for you.
In the church yard in your header and many other older churchyards I see, why are the headstones always falling down.
Why does no one stand them up ?
That's amazing.. I think mice.. I'm also watching something strange with my orange trees. I don't know which animals tare eating those oranges. Whenever I go to pick oranges I always find, someone ate the oranges from inside while the peels are still hanging from the the stem.
I think you may be right in saying mice. I once stored some rather attractive artificial sprays of berried greenery in the loft after Christmas one year. When I went to bring them down again for the next Christmas, mice had eaten all the berries!
Well, we can't grow holly here, so ..... No idea.
I don't know, but I certainly envy you the holly. It's hard to find in my area.
Rabbits?
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