The silence of the beautiful autumn morning was interrupted by a very noisy helicopter waiting to take off from the airfield, but after it disappeared over the horizon, the reason for the daily walks soon became apparent. Nothing out of the ordinary to report, a few photos taken of different birds on the way round. […]
Another quiet and still autumn morning as can be seen from the photo of the cow, but which is the real one? We started feeding the birds last week but still no sign of the bullfinches, it will probably take a while for the word to spread. There are Red Admirals everywhere, it’s been a […]
This morning it was a very pleasant sight, we have not seen one of these for over 12 months but this morning it lifted out, very slowly, from the long grass between the airfield and new cattle fences. They used to be regular occurrence at this time of year but since the cattle grazing has […]
Tony caught these two dragonflies last week and I think we probably will not see anymore now, until next year. Bri
This has been the best year since installation in 2005, all ten were used. Three boxes had eggs not hatched and the one in an old pear tree had three eggs, two smaller than the third, see photo, probably first tenant was a Great tit, which left one egg, the larger of the three, plus […]
The winter visitors are arriving at the bird feeders, we will probably start next week the regular daily top up, but some other kind person has fitted a new feeder, which is attracting the first birds, see photos. The swan and it’s cygnets tried t6o cross over from the long pond to the smaller one […]