The online parish magazine of Old Basing and Lychpit
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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From Terry McAnish: I have never seen so many Blue Tits on my new feeders along with Great Tits, Long Tailed Tits, Coal Tits, Nuthatch, Robins and a male Greater Spotted Woodpecker. The feeders deter the squirrels who gorge themselves….
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Hi Rick 1. Reasons not to like Pigeons We have a TV aerial attached to the back wall of our house; inevitably, it partly projects across the end of the roof. Pigeons like to sit on it, and to defecate…
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First of possibly 7 Blue Tits fledge today. Dropped right by my feet. Cheers Terry McAnish
Benjamin Hall writes: Just saw this slow worm coming out to sunbathe on a piece of concrete:
Terry McAnish shows his latest garden visitors, Orange Tip Butterflay above and Male Black Cap below:
It has been quite a long wait this year but finally the local frogs have started spawning. I think the cold spell a month or so ago set them back a little. The pond water was not warm enough until…
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From Philip Males: Rick, I was walking into town along the railway bank path today and spotted this common lizard out basking. It was exactly the same spot I had spotted one last year in April but I did not…
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A selection of pictures taken during the recent snow by Sarah Harding:
Observed on the 27th October Terry McAnish says: “Haven’t seen a Woodpecker for some time until today this female Greater Spotted Woodpecker visited my fat ball feeders. A welcome sight”