Posted in General on Sep 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
How can we stop domesticated, well fed, cats killing our garden birds?
Has anyone any tips or advice.
I have had a comment from someone who has spent hours trying to protect his garden birds-
. I’ve just spent the last couple of weeks spending my nights protecting my (endangered &; uncommon in this part of the [...]
Posted in General on Apr 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Now is the time birds are nesting, hatching their young birds, feeding the young birds and trying to feed themselves.
When cats kill birds now it can mean that they are not only killing one bird but the young fledglings may not survive either.
If one parent dies the one surviving parent has to work doubly hard [...]
Posted in Countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds, Poll Articles on Jul 22nd, 2007 3 Comments »
We have had our night time cat visitor again.
This cat has left it’s calling card near the bird table. If it has an owner why does the owner let it roam. It will have been stalking my birds all night.
At night birds need a safe haven and rest.
Birds don’t have their daily food handed to them [...]
Posted in Diary on Jun 29th, 2007 No Comments »
About 3 years ago we had a thin, bedraggled, stray cat wandered into the stack yard. It came from nowhere and started to come to the house. It would sit on the window ledge outside our living room window and tap on the window with its paw.
We told this cat that it did not live here [...]
Posted in Diary on Jun 14th, 2007 No Comments »
14th June 2007
I have killed a bird. A thrush. I don’t know if it was a Song Thrush or a Mistle Thrush. I didn’t like to look too closely at it. Someone else took it away. It looked so pitiful, when it should be singing and enjoying life it was lifeless at my feet. Guilt [...]
Posted in General on Jun 7th, 2007 6 Comments »
CATS KILL BIRDS
In the United States of America it has been suggested that, to stop them killing wild birds, cats should be kept inside all the time. They become domestic indoor cats. Could this happen in Britain?