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How To Protect Your Chickens From Foxes?

When it comes to raising chickens, safeguarding your feathered friends is as crucial as providing them with food and shelter. Predators like foxes pose a significant threat, capable of swiftly deci...

Squirrel Food - A Guide To Feeding Squirrels

Duck Breeds - A Guide to Duck Breeds

Black duck (also, black mallard) The black mallard, or black duck, is very similar to the mallard in some respects, but there is a difference as the bill is exactly the same size and shape as the M...

How do squirrels mate?

It is important note that though red and grey squirrels have very similar breeding biology, they do not interbreed with each other. Despite there being equal numbers of males and females in the pop...

How and when can you feed squirrels?

Squirrels can be drawn some considerable distance by a food table and some will travel more than a kilometre for a daily meal. However, squirrels do not generally give up natural foraging and rely ...

What do squirrels eat and where do squirrels store food?

Squirrels are highly opportunistic creatures, and will make good use of any new food supply that becomes available, including the peanuts from your bird table, the bulbs from your spring border, an...

Red and Grey Squirrels - What's The Difference?

Where do Red Squirrels come from? Fossil bones in caves have shown that an animal, very much like our red squirrel, but called White's Squirrel (Sciurus whitei), was present in the coniferous fores...

Will Red Squirrels become extinct in the UK?

It is impossible to say. There is no doubt that we are in severe danger of losing the last of the red squirrels still resident in their native habitat of broadleaf woodland. Where you can find Red ...

Do squirrels drink water?

No, squirrels don’t drink a lot of water since they get most of the water that they require from their diet. Squirrels eat a lot of moist vegetable matter of one form or another, and frequently for...

Do squirrels bite?

Yes, squirrels can and do bite if they feel threatened particularly during the spring and summer time when they are with their young. A squirrel can inflict a very nasty bite, usually made worse by...

How long do squirrels live for?

For a squirrel it seems that it all depends whether the squirrel makes it to her first birthday… The dangers start as soon as the squirrel is born. Its mother may produce enough milk, and the baby ...

Can squirrels swim?

Yes, squirrels can indeed swim. Squirrels frequently visit open water to drink during hot weather, and, in the course of their travels, will undoubtedly come across water on many occasions. Hapless...

Where do squirrels live and build their nests?

The simple answer is anywhere and everywhere, but woodland is their natural home. Woods are naturally a relatively undisturbed and stable habitat, although modern forestry practices mean that squir...

Swans, Ducks & Aquatic Birds - A Guide

Some birds are drawn to gardens with or near ponds and streams because of feeding opportunities, while others seek sanctuary from would-be predators in these surroundings. There is a great variety ...