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We have lots of feeders out which we are having to fill regulary. Have  even put an apple past its best onto a stick, that was enjoyed.

KM

There are more foxes in towns and cities than in the countryside now; they are not silly, they know where the easier food opportunities are. We have several just ouside.

Anne

We regularly come face to face with foxes on our street....one scared the poop out of me by popping it's head around the corner of the house while I was outside having a cig....don't quite remember who moved the fastest

We have fruit trees in our garden and always leave a few apples and pears on for the birds at the end of the season, the blackbirds love them, and we now have a large extended family of them after they nested in the conifers and Hunisuckle harbour last year, raising about three clutches of eggs.

The KFC near the Wyvern centre in Derby has its own resident foxes who do their own bin emptying duties looking for scraps. They are not shy either, even when cars are parked nearby, and the main A52 is whizzing by behind them, they carry on foriging for bits of chicken, helped by a family of large crows who shread up the papers and packaging looking for anything the foxes leave behind.

Sadly, there are often fatalities on the road from them, especially the young ones, as they try and cross to get into the large cemetary where a lot of them live undisturbed, some using the crumbling Victorian vaults as a den.

My Dad is even luckier, he has a family of badgers visit his field, they live in a local spinney, and come upto his yard looking for spilled peanuts from the birdfeeders, he also feeds them on dogfood when the weather is really bad, which occasionally, the local hedgehogs will come out of the barn for, where they tend to take refuge during the winter,  

Julia  

We have lots of urban foxes & a badger who goes through our garden on the way to the green in the centre of our cul-de-sac. Lovely to watch him snarfling (i wonder if that's a word?) for worms and grubs.

I leave peanut butter sandwiches made from old bread out when it's really bad. Don't get many birds in our garden although the squirrels visit regularly. I've been told that birds won't come in the garden because I have an aviary with green parakeets & budgies.

Snow was a complete surprise near south London yesterday as they hadn't forecast it. All gone now but very icey.