Wildlife in Stroudgreen

Greg · August 2008

Hi Andy

Thanks for advice. I will do so tomorrow. I am the headteacher at the school. I hope this website will help us to get more involved in the wider Stroud Green community.

berrynice · August 2008

@ Jeremy Fisher - are you serious about the barn owls?

And has anyone been bat-spotting on the Parkland walk?

Colette · August 2008

Can grownups learn to garden too, or just children? I need window box tutoring.

Toddlesocks · August 2008

I really wanted to go on the last bat spotting event ( since would not know where to look alone) but did not make it, hopefully the next one....when ever that is ?

unaesthetic · August 2008

ooooo! bat spotting!!! i know i've heard bats around at twilight, but i've never known how to actually track them down. i'd love to go on a bat spotting event.

Greg · August 2008

Colette - I am sure Sofia will give advice on window boxes. at the open morning. Please come along. It is for adults as well as children. We have not yet provided regular classes in gardening for adults. If there was sufficient demand we could do so. I will look into this in September. Environmental education, and growing food in particular, are an important part of the curriculum at Pooles Park. We are funded to help other school develop environmental education and last year won the London schools Environment award.

I have not seen a barn owl at the school but we do have chickens.

Bridget · August 2008

Well that's solved it!

Thanks Greg I live in Moray Road and I hear lots of little childrens voices every day and can never work out where they are from, I look into the little park on Woodfall Road and its empty and have never seen a school on Lennox Road!

Must look harder. Can parents of very little ones come along I have a 9 month year old?

Thanks for clearing up the mystery.

Bridget

Greg · August 2008

Hi Bridget - We are a bit tucked away. All ages welcome - We hope to to run a parent and toddlers gardening club in the spring for anyone in the area. Hope the sun shines.

Philistine'sMonster · August 2008

Bridget, the little children's voices you hear are most likely coming from the charming little day nursery tucked away behind Moray Road. It's accessible via the little alley off Moray Road (Charteris RD end), or down Everleigh Street (next to MAH Brothers) off Tollington Park. It's a good nursery with a nice, safe play area, too.

Greg · August 2008

Phil, I think you are right about the voices. North islington is an excellent nursery. The two schools work closely together. The nursery site is closing for twelve months while extensive building work takes place. It re-opens as a Childrens Centre in Sept 2009. Bridget, If you can still hear little voices in September, it is probably Pooles Park.

Billy Bookcase · August 2008

@berrynice

Yes, I've seen them sitting up there in the twilight.

sophie · August 2008

i'm glad to have it confirmed (by a headteacher no less!) that hatley road counts as stroud green. i have no excuse not to come as i live about ten steps away from it and would love to see what's inside those forbidding walls.

colette i may well join you for an adult window boxing session, mine are the ones with the dead nicotinias in that i replace about once a week.

Greg · August 2008

Good to know we have barn owls. We must put up an owl box.

The walls are a bit formidable. inside, all is lovely. Glad you can come Sophie. Ancient documents, recently discovered, confirm that Hatley Rd is in Stroud Green.

On the advice of Andy, I have started a new discussion to advertise the open morning.

Duncan · August 2008

I quite like the idea of that bat trip, next time someone is organising one

tosscat · August 2008

Are you thinking of 'finding' the bats, or just looking at them in flight?

andy · August 2008

We were playing with a torch and a bat detector in the deepest countryside. It was great fun. You shine the torch straight up in the air to attract bugs and after a while the bat detector starts to go crazy as the bats overhead start swooping around the beam, eating the bugs.

Pete · August 2008

Bat detector? ![Bats?](http://www.reelmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/z4374466o.jpg) Where does he get such wonderful toys?

andy · August 2008

Never thought of it like that - the Joker just had a [Maplin catalogue](http://www.maplin.co.uk)

Billy Bookcase · August 2008

Tawny owls were very active last night after midnight.

Toddlesocks · August 2008

Had to lol at a squirrel teasing one of the neighbourhood cats on top of our shed roof the other day, could not believe it when i saw it just 2 foot from the cat twitching around as if daring it to try and catch it, the cat doing its best to look uninterested be it a bit bemused.

Agaton Sax · September 2008

I've got a very noisy squirrel in my garden. I didn't realise squirrels actually made noises, but my one makes a noise a bit like a spluttering goose. Quite disturbing.

tosscat · September 2008

Honk.

out_and_stroud · September 2008

@Toddlesocks: was it a white cat? If so, it was probably ours. She has feline dementia and occasionally thinks she's King Harald of Norway. Probably thought the squirrel was an equerry...

tosscat · September 2008

As long as she doesn't think he's poor old [Mette-Marit](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1983679.stm).

Toddlesocks · September 2008

@ out-and-stroud , it was a little tabby . Your cat sounds like quite a character, amazing how many seem to think they are royalty

It seems we have to be careful not to ruffle the feathers of Stroud green birds.

Today around 6pm they were making such a noise i went to investigate, along with several other neighbours who had heard the commotion too and came out (upper east -Stapleton hall rd ).

Around 15 white blue and black birds ( dont think they were magpies but may be wrong ?) had surrounded a cat ( large fluffy black and white) up a dead tree next door . They actually chased it, around the branches of the tree then along the gardens swooping the rather freaked out cat , it lasted about 20 minutes. Even some crows came to watch, leaving the cat attack to the others. My cat came flying in the back door like his tail was on fire obviously worrying they were going to start on him next .

I took a few pics , this is the best one, can just about make them out. The red dots are above some of the birds heads.

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tosscat · September 2008

They are almost certainly magpies looking at the photos. Are the sort of middle size?

Toddlesocks · September 2008

@tosscat, yeah middle size

A gang of them were back again tonight, looks like they have taken up resedency .

katiejane · September 2008

They do indeed look like magpies - nine of the buggers. In which case, nine's for a kiss!!

Oooh - lucky toddlesocks.

tosscat · September 2008

9 is rare. Ma-ah-ah-ahg-pie-eeay-eeay-aaey!

katiejane · September 2008

I had to look it up - I only knew up to seven thanks to the programme Magpie which, errmm, my older brother told me about.

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