Predators.

One of the issues with having a lot of wildlife in your garden is that you have to be as welcoming to there predators whether you like it or not, below are a couple of examples of the kind of unwelcome visitors I've found making use of the garden.

 Tech. Details

F-stop- f/7.1

Expo- 1000secs

ISO- 2000

Expo Bias- 0 steps

Focal Length- 500mm

Tech. Details

F-stop- f/8

Expo- 800secs

ISO-1250

Expo Bias- 0 steps

Focal Length- 300mm

Sparrowhawks never where something you saw outside of the countryside but now with more and more people feeding birds they seem to be adapting there hunting methods and making use of the fact that there usually a large amount of birds in one place on a regular basis meaning less effort for them. Clever bird I just wish it'd choose someone else's garden to get takeaway from.

  

 Tech. Details

F-stop- f/5.6

Expo- 2500secs

ISO- 2000

Expo Bias- 0 steps

Focal Length- 300mm

Tech. Details

F-stop- f/5.6

Expo- 160secs

ISO- 500

Expo Bias- 0 steps

Focal Length- 300mm

Of course the other problem you will always find is cats, they just love to hide themselves away and wait for the first sign of anyone coming into the garden to explode from the under growth. I wouldn't mind so much but it isn't even my cat yet it seems to spend more and more time hiding out in the back garden. Again as with the Sparrowhawk its learnt that its easier picking because of the regularity of birds, mice etc that are coming in and out.

Increase in the number of cats is possibly another factor why wildlife number in our gardens have fallen so much over the last few decades because they don't real hunt for food as much as for fun killing pretty much anything they can, luckily with this particular cat I found it didn't like being watered to often so it seems to be getting the idea that my garden isn't the best place to hunt after all.