[West Ender]

Nothing very exotic but we get hundreds of snails. Move a plant pot and there'll be a snail nursery underneath it. They eat everything they can get their jaws round. We rarely saw them until about 10 years ago because the thrushes ate them but I haven't seen a thrush round here for years. I would love to have a hedgehog in the garden as they eat slugs and snails and don't harm plants.

Very occasionally a fox will investigate the garden but it's rare since dustbins were replaced by wheelie-bins.

A few years ago we had rats. A neighbour kept rabbits in her garden and never removed the muckings-out, just let it all drop under the cage, so the rats came. A rat took up residence in my garage and chewed everything in sight, including my wellies, within a few days. I had to get Pest Control to deal with it. They dealt with the neighbour too!

I get frogs in my mini greenhouse and toads under the stones in the rockery. I also saw either a newt or a lizard under there too, last Summer. It shot away so fast I couldn't tell which it was but I think it was a lizard.

Wood pigeons are constant visitors, plus blackbirds and robins. Various other birds are around, this area is full of trees, and I get the odd woodpecker. Herons perch on a greenhouse behind my garden as it's next to a fish pond but the only large birds I've had were 2 ducks that waddled round my lawn all one morning then went and sat in a puddle on the road. I don't mind the birds until the soft fruit is ripe. The little b*ggers love my raspberries.