I have just read that to keep flies out of the house ..
Just put some water in a freezer bag.. drop in a few pennies and hang it up somewhere..
Flies won't go near it because they think it's a bee hive..
I haven't seen any flies in my home..
I have rescued a few Honey Bees that have become exhausted 💤.. I just put some sugar water or honey near them.. They start to eat the sugar.. when revived I put them in the garden on a flower..
Please help them..
I use a great big flower pot saucer, I half fill it with water and place a small rock in it, so as bees and small birds have something to stand on while they drink, put it in the flowerbed beside the azaleas and change the water every couple of days. It's well used for both drinking and bathing, the spugs love to splash around in it.
We have a bird bath on a pedestal - once saw mummy sparrow with four chicks having the bath of their lives in in!
Mike
3-4 years ago I bought a big, deep ceramic dish and put pebbles and small stones in it, which lives in the middle of a table in the back garden and is filled by the rain. The sparrows here have several broods a year and they always come to it for their first baths after fledging. Fun to watch and then mum/dad show 'em the bird tables. Quite capable of feeding themselves but they still sit and 'gape' to be fed..
I too use a big plant saucer with pebbles in for the bugs..
I also have a water dish for the hedgehog..
Wildlife Cafe..
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Lovely flowers Raven.
We have a cat so no longer feed the birds although the silly, spoilt sod does not seem th have a killer instinct.
Quote from: Sheila on May 24, 2022, 11:38:24 AM
Lovely flowers Raven.
Thankyou, I love azaleas they are so colourful. Just wish their flowering period was longer. :smiley:
Quote from: zoony on May 23, 2022, 09:58:47 PM
3-4 years ago I bought a big, deep ceramic dish and put pebbles and small stones in it, which lives in the middle of a table in the back garden and is filled by the rain. The sparrows here have several broods a year and they always come to it for their first baths after fledging. Fun to watch and then mum/dad show 'em the bird tables. Quite capable of feeding themselves but they still sit and 'gape' to be fed..
We had Woodpeckers like that, baby came over to the nuts and was feeding himself fine for ages, along came the parent and he just stood there and let the parent feed him.
I think most mums had teenagers like that..
Quote from: zoony on May 25, 2022, 02:04:02 AM
I think most mums had teenagers like that..
and dads!