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Garden Wildlife Gardening Articles
This is just one of the regular blackbirds that come to feast each day ,on my cats dried food.He has become quite cheeky ,as he has begun to take the food from my cats dish himself.I often hear him calling me ,early in the morning ,to put some of the... Read More
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Yesterday afternoon my husband heard scratching noises coming from behind the living room gas fire. He dismantled the fire & shone the torch through the letterbox-sized aperture in the metal plate behind it to see a trapped starling! It was at the s... Read More
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This is our friend woody. He sometimes brings his friends, but I think he regards our garden as his place. we have also had the family "sparrow" and watched the starling fledglings grow up, and join the squardron, which sometimes descend on mass. ... Read More
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Sparrowhawk numbers on the increase?
Posted by Grafter
Wednesday 28th January 2009
Category: Garden Wildlife
Over the last year I have seen maybe a dozen sparrowhawks, which is more than I have seen in the previous ten years. These birds are will'o'the'wisps and usually difficult to spot. I just wonder if their numbers are increasing. By the wa... Read More
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For me, the pheasant epitomises autumn, with its breast like fiery burnished copper, catching and reflecting the precious rays of sunshine, in harmony with the autumnal foliage and its iridescent collar of greens and blues flashing in the undergrowth... Read More
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Driving home last night from my lapidary workshop, I was excited to spot a fox sitting in the gateway to Endsleigh Convent, which is situated beside a busy main road! I have never seen a live fox in the "wild" before! (but seen plenty of them as ro... Read More
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