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Of all the British wild life what would you most love to see,
What would you most love to have in your garden,
What would you most love to handle?

owls and bats
anything that eats snails
don't know - handling takes away some of the "wild" so I'd rather just look and not touch.

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Just been to my sisters in wales nice to see buzzards.

Also doing the garden of a friend's mother lots of toads.

My allotment lots of frogs.

I like them all equally.

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Otters! We have badgers visit our back garden, foxes. There are buzzards that regularly fly over our plot, all sorts of birds of prey. And linnets, pippits etc, but never, EVER, seen an otter. They are supposed to visit Newtown Creek on the Island and we've been there many times but no sighting yet.

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Zebedee
"Raised to a state of heavenly lunacy where I just can't be touched!"

Swallow tail butterflies and glow worms
great crested newts
owls

Newtown creek - Heaven, spent a truly beautiful evening moored up there last July - the roasting hot week! Oh to have been 'many times'

I'd be happy with a hedgehog

The only 'wildlife' we get consists of rooks, crows, magpies and fieldmice!

I will be very happy to have a hedgehog visiting my garden, Sea otter is the other favorite animal, but not possible to have them ... but will be very happy to just watching them, they are so cute and intelligent, they use rock as a tool too... very smart !

momol

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I grow, I pick, I eat ...

I would love anything that eats moles and something that eats dog poo and poos out grass seed

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

Owls! I would love to be a falconer! Just think what my pack would say.......

around work and at the plot we get ring necked parakeets, noisy but incredibly pretty to look at. would love to see red kites, have been up around High Wycombe and seen them there, but would love to see them regularly, fantastic birds, so graceful (could help keep wood pidgeon numbers in check as well)

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Kernow rag nevra

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
Albert Einstein

Pleeeeeeeeeeese let me know if you find a mole eater!!!!!!!!

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Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

My cat caught an mole once...made me very sad.
A mole has made a hill in my row of radishes, very carefully brushed the earth away form baby radish, said cat came along, fresh soft earth? had a poo in the same spot....poor radish (wont eat those ones) got rid of poo only to find the very next eveing a fox had added its poo to the spot!!!! cant win some times, though I did have to laugh!

They are amazing - we have one who is a regular visitor through our garden (comes by most days) and I've had a few days with 5 circling overhead (I didn't get much done that hour).

As far as the pigeon statement goes it has absolutely no effect (we have masses of them), as kites only eat carrion - but just seeing the kites is enough for me.

just wishful thinking, every other method for trying to rid wood pigeons dosen't work either

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Kernow rag nevra

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
Albert Einstein

I'm currently going down the "eat them" path, a bit slow but at least I get to take back the produce of mine that they have gorged on (and my friend with a gun is very happy to have the target practise )

On our plot we have a resident Robin which will sit nearby when we're digging watching for anything we unearth. We also have a toad. On the downside our site's over run by b****y pigeons!

I love blackbirds and robins. I would love to have slow worms again ... had lots in Brighton, but never seen one up here in E.Angular

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Robins Robins and more robins also hedgehogs

I don't have a garden as I live in a flat - that doesn't stop me enjoying the swifts nesting in the eaves and the fox visitor I see almost every night trotting up the street (much to my kitty's delight, she's desperate to go and play with it!) I do often 'borrow' my parents garden and we've often been treated to hedgehogs, and squirrels. I have a soft spot for blackbirds as well as the jackdaws and magpies who are regular visitors too.

I'd most love to see owls and weasels - sometimes we take a trip out into the countryside, park up somewhere and just wait and watch