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Well we have had the snow now not sure for how long we got it for , the birds  seem to be grateful for the new arrival of the extra feeding station  and it's got me thinking in trying some  new diffrent types of feeding station  to encourage  more of the wildlife into  my garden I been honoured to day…

The Exe Estuary is a great place to watch birds all year-round but it can be particularly rewarding in winter with around 40,000 birds coming here on their winter migration. The Exe Estuary, at low tide is mainly a combination of sand and mud banks which are slowly covered as the tide comes in. The whole area is a vital feeding and resting area for this large numbers of birds. Excellent viewing is possible from the shoreline and Exminster marshes, however every year the RSPB arrange Avocet…

BIRDS (25)



BLACKBIRD

BLUE TIT

BULLFINCH

CARRION CROW

CHAFFINCH

COAL TIT

COLLARED DOVE

DUNNOCK

FERAL PIGEON

FIELDFARE

GOLDFINCH

GREAT TIT

GREENFINCH

GREEN WOODPECKER

HOUSE SPARROW

LONG-TAILED TIT

MAGPIE

PIED WAGTAIL

REDWING

ROBIN

SPARROWHAWK

STARLING

STOCK…

I awoke at the crack of half 9 to the sound of a gently snoring retriever and a howling gale outside the window, another day in I thought, but after two restorative cups of tea, and waiting for the dog to surface, (he does like his bed) I decided a walk would do us both good.

A short drive from Countess Wear, the area of Exeter I call home, is the Powderham estate, which borders the Exe estuary, with a nice level path behind the sea wall, sadly with a railway (built by Brunel)…

My wife and I visited Essex Wildlife Trust's Abberton Reservoir today, Thursday 19 January 2012. At the Visitor Centre we were treated to incredibly close up views of blue and great tits and chaffinches feeding at the seed and nut dispensers.

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I've never done one of these before, so may as well start here, I doubt I'll be that regular posting, but I'll stick bits up from time to time.

Despite horrendous man flu, worse than anyone has ever had before, i'm sure(!) this afternoon I drove down to the RSPB car park behind the Swans Nest pub near Exminster, the marshes there are a haven for thousands of birds, and its well managed, and I live about two miles from it, so its also convienient!

Swinging into the car park, a…

O n a -2 Saturday Morning  all the birds were waiting for me this morning to top up the BIRDTABLE as all the combo i put out was eaten up yesterday  so this morning  i put some bread crumbs and suite out on the table .

the wild  bird has stared to go down now as well , wether it's becaues we have run out in the back garden  until we go shopping again for food they will have yop come to the front garden feeder for wild bird seed mixture .

I will be cooking some rice and pasta…

from The Badger's Eye - 8.1.12

After a morning on a chilly football training pitch I returned home and enjoyed a…

Wondering why the wild bird is not going down all the rest seem to be going down

As you can see

  the fat block ,peanuts  and the goldfinches favourite  the Niger seed and my combo on the top of the table   I know there are still…

You never know what roams around until you see fins at the surface of water.

Orcas graced our inshore waters on the eighth day of the first month. A series of tweets alerted us from late morning. From Grutness, the southern end of Shetland…

In case you were wondering why I call my garden visitors my family I thought I would explain. The reason is I cannot have children so I turn that emptiness into positively helping all the wildlife in my garden.

I can encourage wildlife in my patch to stay alive and slowly help them to feel safe, to bring their own families up in the safe haven that I am slowly creating with my darling husband David.

Yesterday I caught sight of a great tit making the red nest box hole a bit…

I felt a bit better this afternoon so went for a walk with David and our 2 dogs Hattie on lead and chocolate of lead,

 before that David kindly help me refill 2 nigar seed feeders,2 peanut feeders and 2 fatball feeders and 5 wildbird feeders.

  You would not think I done them on Tuesday would you, 4 of the feeders were still half full so we did not refill them, nor the front apart from putting some wild bird on the bird…

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Been under the weather with cold so mainly been inside as darling hubby would not let me go out to day not even in the garden so the only thing to keep me happy was looking out of the front room using my web cam to look at what is happening to the front garden and the birds calling in for food during the day

I took this photo yesterday…

I quite please with the desk top web cam but i can not take it to the back garden were my 3 feeding statons are and the one in the cherry tree makes four  and my 4 next boxes , as i know the food is going down like mad out inthe back garden  but not much is happening in the front garden but please with what is coming  i currently put nigar,fat balls peanuts ,wildbird ,block fat  and insect mix and scraps like windfalls

i still wonder if the ducks are stopping some of the birds but…

From Christmas Day and Boxing Day I counted over 100 birds and ether a blue tit or grey tit went inside the nest box last spring we had a family of blue tits for the first time

They had 5 chicks I did not have a pair of binoculars to hand to make a clear identification

Whether I…

Yule has come to 60N, and with it, the longest night of the year (22 Dec), hissing gales and freak hail showers. Snow has vanished once again. Every year, Norway gifts us with wonderful spruces, as a token of friendship. All three…

With impending bad weather forecast for the weekend, it was decided to get the birding bus out of mothballs and go for it. Shropshire nice and mild, Cheshire snow hard and thick and New Brighton producing all of it over two days on the beach.…

For the second time since December, Shetland feels Arctic maritime. Snow falls here and there, dusting every corner of the islands. Earlier on today, we woke to a pale sun that dazzled our hearts and watched starlings, sparrows and blackbirds feasting on leftovers & fat scattered…