Wildlife

[sessifet]

One of the joys of moving to another place is encountering new and different wildlife. Moving from a gardenless ground floor flat in an urban area to a semi-detached house (with a garden) in a suburban area has definitely increased the number of birds and other animals I spot on a regular basis.

There's wood pigeons roosting in the large tree, a collection of small brown boppy birds (I think they're finches. Possibly sparrows?) that live in the hedge, at least one robin^*, various frogs and toads and a whole ton of jumping spiders.

Also, we appear to have a small depressed elephant trundling through the neighbourhood every other weekend or so.<sup>**

*</sup>Who is convinced that this is his turf and the rest is only allowed here so long as we all behave ourselves and don't get any ideas.
^**Actually it's the scrap metal van, but it really does sound like a small depressed and, above all, tone-deaf elephant.

Comments

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

Almost certainly sparrows - either the house sparrow where the male has a nice black bib, or the bunting which is also known as the hedge sparrow. They tend to act a lot like flying mice, only without the infestation issues.

[pakennedy.livejournal.com]

LBJs[1] in a garden will be sparrows. I'm surprised you haven't a couple of blackbirds as well.

[1] Little Brown Jobs