Blue Tits
From Terry McAnish: 30 March 2021 – Waiting for the Blue Tits to finish their nest in my camera/nest box. 20 April 2021 – My Blue Tit, 8 eggs and the male feeding the female. The female calls to the male…
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Deer Sprouts
From Tim Shapland: Backing on to the Lychpit, as we do, we get quite a few visitors of varying natures, with this one looking decidedly bashful when he realised he had been spotted. We’d been wondering what had been happening…
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Daily Visitors
From Terry McAnish: Daily visitors to my garden, Pheasants.
Garden antics
From Terry McAnish: Had a Squirrel and male Chaffinch together and had to tell my pheasant off for trying to eat my greenhouse!
Blue Tit
From Terry McAnish: I have a Blue Tit sleeping in my camera nest box each night from 4:15pm till 7am next day, gets more sleep than me! Got some great video shots of it.
Butterflies
Rick, Over the last week to ten days a grey heron has been visiting my back garden and pond here in Lychpit. Quite a feat seeing my garden is quite small at 45 feet square and packed full of shrubs…
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Hedgehogs
From Terry McAnish: For the last two to three months I have been feeding a hedgehog every night and last night three turned up possibly one being a juvenile. I have put a hedgehog house under my philadelphus bush so…
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Mallards
From Terry McAnish: Two visitors today, a female Mallard on my bungalow roof who started chattering every time I came out and a male on my neighbours roof and stayed for about 3/4 hour quite happy to tolerate me.
An Uncommon Christmas Visitor to the Pond
Rick, Over the last week to ten days a grey heron has been visiting my back garden and pond here in Lychpit. Quite a feat seeing my garden is quite small at 45 feet square and packed full of shrubs…
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