What’s happened to the weather, cold crisp beautiful days, great !! Yesterday we were being watched by two deer, very difficult to notice hiding in the long grass, and they spotted us first, they moved off slowly but were still in the area half an hour later. Quite a few Teal on the long pond, […]
A cold northerly wind on top of the damp made it really penetrating, more rain during the night, further topped up the ponds, photo of first small pond on the right, only inches to go to overflow. Snow appeared on the Old Man, took photo with small camera and also tried through the binoculars, straight […]
ooops……appears the chart has not been accepted…will have to ascertain what to do to rectify, Bob
Well after a few trials have come up with this chart for a count of the birds on our (almost) daily walks, the count of the small birds is done at the feeder on a timespan of about 15 minutes. The others are counted en route. Hope this information will be of benefit to someone […]
Well after a few trials have come up with this chart for a count of the birds on our (almost) daily walks, the count of the small birds is done at the feeder on a timespan of about 15 minutes. The others are counted en route. Hope this information will be of benefit to someone […]
The rain keeps falling, never seen the ponds so full, a few Canada Geese on the long pond but otherwise very quiet, watched a skein of geese flying north this morning, they have probably been washed out as well. We have been seeing two male and female Bullfinches at the feeders, but this morning there […]
Dreadfull day today,did not stop the local wildlife from being out and about,two woodcock were in the dunes north of pond 35,seeing them fairly regularly but don’t know what the attraction is for them as they are seen usually in the wet scrub area. Put a lone short eared owl up further on looked wet […]
We had a pleasant surprise this morning, a Brambling at the feeders. It was still there in the afternoon, took some shots but it was really overcast and dark, not the best. Also took a shot of a male Chaffinch and you can see the difference between the two. We are also getting a male […]