Whose garden?

Son of Bob feels that my garden, at least the back of it, is part of his sung-body-space. He's often chasing people away.

The dunnocks seem to inhabit the hedges. The tits are foraging visitors. The blackbirds... there seems to be a pair and a young male... are pretty peaceful.

Random video... I like seeing them slowed down...

The starlings - I saw about fifty flocking over the house yesterday and today.

The fox comes most nights. The cat is often here. The hedgehog lives here I think. She's asleep now.

The rats. I had heard noises in the area above the kitchen. It was very busy up there for a while in the late summer and autumn. Quiet now... but it turns out that my neighbour has been poisoning the rats. He knew about the hole in the front of the garden and has been dealing with it... Maybe that's why they have moved behind the green box. He says he can't sleep because they are running around all night. He would like me to make my house rat-proof so they can't progress from mine to his.

Now, when I saw two rats, I was pretty sure there were more. Maybe ten? With four rats... maybe there's twenty? There could be very many rats.

My neighbour is vegetarian and hates killing animals. Rats in the garden, fine. Rats in the roof? Nope.

He said they night gnaw their way into the kitchen. They might.

But, well, whose garden? Whose territory? Whose house?