What a nice thread. We are a few miles south of Cambridge and get the usual garden birds. There are quite few Goldfinches hopping about this year which is nice. They are such pretty creatures. We also have visits from Sparrowhawks. One did for our poor song thrush last year. We don’t get snakes, but we have toads, there seem to be quite a few of them. I hope they are eating the slugs. . . We even found several tiny toads crawling about in the house a couple of years ago. We still have no idea how they got in.
A Muntjac once decided that the best place to rest up in the daylight hours was behind our shed. My wife was scared half to death when it rushed out and ran right by her. It didn’t come back after that so maybe the shock was mutual! We hear them barking quite often.
Jon x
I think she associates me with food as I drop ferret crunchies sometimes but my daughter has tried your raisin technique already, but with worms! She hasn’t quite got the bird feeding out of her hand yet, but I’m sure she’ll keep trying! 
We are fortunate enough to get goldfinches sometimes, lovely little things, my favourites! Did you know that the collective noun for goldfinches is a charm? Perfect, isn’t it. 
a fox just casually took a wander through our garden (10 am) but by the time I’d grabbed the camera it was almost too late…
Nice. I was in London a couple of weeks ago at a friends house and we saw a fox in the back garden. It saw us, made eye contact, squatted down and calmly did a poo on the lawn before trotting off. . . Charming. . .
we had some on the front step recently, I imagine thta was “our” fox saying hello!
Was he looking for foxgloves? 
Lol! Cheeky so-and-so!
Love this thread 
We get lots of woodland visitors now, but a few years ago we lived in a flat in the town and as it was warm I had the front door open…imagine the shock I got to find a big fat pigeon sitting in front of the TV!!! It didn’t want to leave! X
I have had swallows in my kitchen but not a pigeon watching the tV!
I have a nesting box on my hut and it faces my kitchen window and most years blue tits or great tits come and nest there. I love watching them and when the babies are thinking of leaving the box I wont go our because I want to see them jump out!. I can touch them with my finger when they are peeking out. I have to make sure the hut door is closed because twice they have flown inside and couldnt get out. You can imagine what it feels to like to catch and hold a young blue tit in your hands and then free it. What lovely bright colours they are and the sound of them tweeting is one of my favourite sounds.
Lol! It was probably waiting for the tea and biscuits to arrive…
On the subject of tv wildlife, when J. and I lived in Diss (we were in the town, not out in the fields) I got home late one night to discover a young rabbit sitting under the tv table! Unlike your pigeon, though, I think it had help to get there - it was being watched closely from across the room by my big tomcat Ratty. But if he did bring the rabbit in, he did so very gently, there wasn’t a mark on it!
One day (many years ago) I was sitting with my back to the open patio door when there was a loud shreek from immediately behind me. I almost jumped through the ceiling!! When I’d got my wits collected, I turned round and to my astonishment saw Mogs, our elderly rented cat, trying to catch a frog. It was the frog that was screaming! Actually, it was in very little danger from Mogs as she’d lost most of her teeth - maybe it was scared of being gummed to death!! I have never heard a more un-frog like sound, high pitched and very loud!
We have heard that very unusual sound too…
Our long since deceased Tabby once caught a frog and took it into the open garage. We were working in the garden and heard this terrible screaming and found it was the frog cornered under some shelving and really sounding spookily human - and loud!
hee hee! we have a fox that lives down the end f the garden (you get lots in London), he’s comes out to mark his territory with a poo now and again, the last one he did was quite funny - it was delicately balanced right in the middle of a new creeper plant I’ve just bought - I wondered what the heck it was at first - you’ve got to laugh though, im thinking anything new in the garden is going to get the treatment 
not in my garden - but I tuned into this webcam just in time to see the first 3 blue tit eggs hatch! http://www.wildlifeaid.org.uk/webcams/webcam-2
How gorgeous! I have rescued fledglings a couple of times, but never birds as pretty as blue tits!
Once at my old house in Cambridge, I heard the resident blackbirds kicking up a huge fuss and there was a big crow very close to them. The whole situation looked most odd, so I went outside to take a look and discovered that a fledgling blackbird had blundered into our pyrocantha bush and impaled its wing on one of the thorns. The crow must have spotted it and thought that it had found an easy meal. Fortunately, I was able to unhook the youngster easily, as the straight thorn had gone through the skin of its wing and not got anything important. I released it onto the shed roof, to the great relief of its parents! Whereupon it immediately blundered off into the neighbours garden. Sigh. Fortunately, the crow had flown away (probably cursing interfering humans!).
Sadly, young birds are completely clueless. I used to swear that Ratty (our cat) didn’t have to try to catch birds at this time of year, he just used to have to sit in the garden with his mouth open and some hapless youngster would fall in!!
Lol! I’m pleased somebody else has heard it too, coz it just sounds so improbable! Funny that it was another frog and cat confrontation. The other thing that I noticed was the frog spread out its arms and legs and went totally rigid - I assume it was trying to make itself too big to swallow. It would be a good strategy against a grass snake… or indeed a toothless cat, I guess!
Can you imagine if you were walking in the countryside and you heard that noise, it would be a hasty 999 call.
And can you imagine the swat teams faces when they found out it was a frog!
we feed the foxes and the badgers every night. The come to our patio doors for their dinner. We save scraps all day to give to them…today they had sausages and chips and some pasta and steak…when we have stale bread we make up sandwiches from any left over meats…we also feed the birds and have a variety of them including a regular buzzard, sparrow hawk, nuthatches and wagtails, as well as Jays and all the regular garden birds…magical…
LOL!!! I don’t know who’d have the reddest face!
I had to restrain my other half from dialing 999, when he came down the garden path one night to see how I was getting on in the studio and a blood curdling scream rent the air… no, not me and not the frog again, a much more usual fox. He’d never heard one scream before, he though some unfortunate lass was being done to death out in the fields!