Month: May 2016

Spotted a Common Blue Damselfly catch a moth this morning which it quickly started to devour, shortly after a Meadow Pipit on a gorse bush, with food, which looks like a large Red Damselfly, for it’s young. Bob and Bri

The family of Swans moved to the long pond the next day and all are doing fine, how the adults managed the gates and fences is not known. The place is buzzing with life at the moment, attached are just a few of the animals to see. There are a lot of Bumblebees about at […]

The pair of swans nesting on the pond next to the fishing pond brought the cygnets out onto the fishing pond today and they look more than a day old as can be seen on the photos there are eight, she has probably been keeping them under cover for a few days. Last year was […]

The pair of visiting swans were on the marsh yesterday, they are not venturing far but it’s a bit late to start nesting now. We had an unwelcome visitors at the feeders today, three rats, will have to put the food out of reach, or stop until September. Lots of birds feeding the young, caught […]

Over the last few months another pair of swans have been seen on various ponds but very rarely on the long one, but this morning they were caught by the resident male and he was not happy, see photos. They finally flew off individually about an hour later, the wind was quite strong from the […]