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- First glimpse of 2018 badger cubs
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- First Cuckoo
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- If you go down to the woods today – April
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
RSPB Big Garden Bird watch
Each year the RSPB run The Big Garden Bird Watch. The idea is to watch and record the birds in your garden for an hour anytime over this weekend. The Big Garden Bird Watch has been running since 1979 and … Continue reading
Posted in birds, garden, outdoors, Oxfordshire, RSPB, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife photography
Tagged Big Garden Bird watch, bird feeder, birds, Citizen science, garden, nature, outdoors, RSPB, wildlife
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Fox skeleton in a Badger sett
Whilst out on a walk yesterday I came across a whole fox skeleton right next to a badgers hole. I am extremely interested in how the skeleton got there. I walk past this hole at least twice a week and … Continue reading
Posted in nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Badger, bones, fox, nature, outdoors, skull, winter
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Acorn vs Bushnell trail camera
I own and use two different types of trail camera. A Bushnell Nature View cam HD with live view and a Little Acorn 5210A. I have had the Little Acorn nearly 3 years now, but only bought the Bushnell in … Continue reading
Posted in garden, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Rural life, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Badgers, garden, nature, outdoors, trail camera, trail camera review, wildlife
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Hierarchy in the garden
My garden has a variety of different wildlife, some of the wildlife I can take photos of, others I have to rely on my trail camera. While I was at school I left the trail camera pointing at one of … Continue reading
Posted in birds, garden, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Badgers, bird feeder, birds, Deer, garden, Hierarchy, nature, outdoors, squirrel, trail camera, wildlife, winter
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Wildlife photography and Fitbits
My mum and my sister both had Fitbits for Christmas. A Fitbit is an activity tracker that you wear on your wrist and it monitors things like how many steps you have walked, what your heart rate is and your … Continue reading
Posted in nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Exercise, Fitbit, Fungi, mammals, nature, nature photography, outdoors, red kite, Roe deer, wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
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Lesser Redpolls
On the bird survey I took part in, back in December, we saw 25 Lesser Redpolls. This afternoon I came across what could be the same flock but now there are over 50 of them. It was a cold afternoon … Continue reading
Bird Survey January 2016
On a Saturday morning once a month I take part in our local wood bird survey. This weekend it was extremely cold and frosty but when we started to move it didn’t feel that bad. The survey roughly takes about two … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Woodland
Tagged Bird survey, birds, Citizen science, nature, outdoors, wildlife, winter, woodland, Woods
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