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A new challenge: wild garden wildlife 365
The first day of a new year. It feels so clean and fresh, like I’ve been given a book with hundreds of blank, pure white pages just waiting to be filled. This year I’ve decided to fill a few of those...
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The jackdaw roost draws me back
The sun made a welcome appearance yesterday and spurred me on to walk to the jackdaw and rook roost in the afternoon. It’s not the first time I’ve tried to watch them recently. Twice last week I’ve...
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Golden birds and a fluted song at dusk #WGW365
Three more for my Wild Garden Wildlife 365 Challenge (#WGW365). Two golden lovelies on the bird feeder; Goldfinch (front) and Siskin – neither of them are common in my garden, so they’re welcome...
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A one-eyed monster? #WGW365
No not really, it’s just a fox. I first noticed only one of its eyes was lighting up in the infra-red light of my trail camera about a month ago. I hadn’t noticed it before, and will need to look at...
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Meet the wild neighbours…
They aren’t rare or unusual but sometimes your “neighbours” are the backbone of your wildlife garden. I might despair at the squirrels for stealing all the bird seed from the feeders and trying to...
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Dull day with colourful visitors
Two bullfinches (male on left, female on right) and a blackbird refereeing. Day 5 of my Wild Garden Wildlife 365 Challenge Filed under: Birds, Dorset, wgw365, Wildlife, wildlife uk Tagged: Birds,...
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The breath of a badger
The badger came last night. Nothing unusual in that, one tends to come most nights (I can’t help smiling every morning when I see that they have been, and get nervous when they miss a night), but this...
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Every jackdaw could be George
Every time a jackdaw lands in the garden, or on the roof next door, I wonder if it’s George. Standing at the window I know this jackdaw can see me. He runs up the tiles and stands on the gable for a...
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Dreaming of Dorset Otters
I’d love to report that I’ve been out watching otters, but the truth is I’ve been stuck inside this week working – so to cheer myself up I’m posting a beautiful video of Dorset otters by Hugh Miles. I...
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Tawnies, jackdaws and a dawn chorus at dusk
After a depressing week of rain, cloud and generally messy weather, yesterday’s blue skies were a welcome change. Proper sunshine filled my office at home, and somehow the world didn’t seem quite so...
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Sunshine, winter otters and nosey badgers
What a brilliant Sunday. It started cold but sunny, so I made my mind up to go in search of otters on our local river. I’d forgotten that the river would be so swollen (after a whole day of rain...
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My favourite time of day… a walk at dusk
I should be working. It’s 11.33 am on a Friday morning and my mind keeps wandering back to my walk last night. No point fighting it… I need to get it down on “paper” then maybe I can concentrate on...
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In need of a reminder
I don’t know about you but as the years pass (and seem to blur) I can never remember what I’ve seen when, so this year to jog my memory here’s some highlights from January/February 2014. Hopefully some...
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Day 1: #30DaysWild
I’ve signed up to the Wildlife Trusts #30DaysWild Challenge this month – and will be trying to commit acts of random wildness for the whole of June. So watch out! Day one, and the weather wasn’t ideal...
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Day 2: Bumble in trouble
We’ve all read the newspaper headlines saying bumblebees are in trouble and their numbers are declining, well today, in a small and insignificant way, I was able to help one as part of my #30DaysWild...
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Day 3: Running, owls and butterflies
Day three of the Wildlife Trusts #30DaysWild Challenge and it started with a wild run on what I’ve just found out is “national running day” (didn’t know there was such a thing!). Since I started...
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Day 4: A rubbish spider
Sorry, that should read “rubbish” AND a “spider”. I used to think all spiders were rubbish (actually I used to run a mile from any that got within 3ft of me) but I’ve grown to love them just a little...
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Day 5: It’s all about the bees!
Day 5 of my #30DaysWild challenge was spent eagerly awaiting the release of this film about solitary bees. I wasn’t disappointed. This really is well worth watching. Enjoy!]Filed under: Wildlife...
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Day 6: Getting tired
Day 6 of my #30DaysWild adventure has had it’s up’s and down’s. It often gets to this time of year and I start feeling slightly sad that we’ve already seen the best of spring. Don’t you ever feel like...
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