I spend a lot of time feeding the birds which has resulted in our colony of house sparrows, must be over 30 in the hedges and they make use of the nestboxes, starlings, dunnocks, robin, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, woodpigeon, collared dove, blackbird, siskin, goldfinches, greenfinches, nuthatch, great spotted woodpecker, wren, jackdaw and others. The downside to that is the food does attract rats and Juno has caught two recently.
As a result I have got a humane trap and used it for the first time yesterday and it has already caught several visitors but no rats. The nice thing is that last night I checked before going to bed and there was a hedgehog inside. Given their steep decline in numbers, we were so pleased to have one in the garden. I have also had to release two robins and a dunnock so far. It does work but whether the rat falls for it, we will see. Juno is on standby.
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