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Big Garden Bird Watch 2020
With bird feeders topped up and camera at the ready, I settled down to see which birds visited my garden during the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Bird Watch. As always I completed this important piece of citizen science between 9am … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Birdsy, Blogging, Books, Citizen science, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, nature, Nature Books, Oxfordshire, photography, RSPB, Uncategorized, Wildlife, wildlife books, Wildlife photography
Tagged birds, Birdsy, Blackbird, Blogging, Blue tit, Books, collared dove, Environment, Great tit, Long tailed tit, New Nature magazine, Robin, RSPB
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Busy garden
It is always interesting to see what happens in the garden over night. However, last night seem to be a particularly busy night for wildlife and not so wildlife. Glad to see my local vixen is still around as she … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, Books, Environment, garden, Get Your Boots On, Local patch, nature, Nature Books, photography, Uncategorized, wildlife books
Tagged Birdsy, Deer, Film Oxford, fox, Long tailed tit, wildlife
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Best Big Garden Bird Watch so far
The Big Garden Bird Watch 2018 turned out to be the best one I’ve done so far. Despite drizzling with rain to start with, there were still plenty of birds around. Here’s my list of the birds that actually landed … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, Citizen science, garden, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife photography
Tagged Big Garden Bird watch, Blackbird, Blue tit, Chaffinch, Coal tit, collared dove, Dunnock, Environment, House Sparrow, Long tailed tit, red kite, Robin, wood pigeon, woodpecker
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Hide in the snow
Such a surprise this morning to wake up and find the ground covered in a thin layer of snow. Within a few minutes of entering the wood I spotted a fox trotting along the hedgerow. I stopped and set … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, fox, Fungi, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Rat, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Woodland
Tagged Blogging, Chaffinch, Environment, footprints, fox, Fungi, hide, Long tailed tit, nature, pigeon, Rat, wildlife, Wildlife photography, woodland
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If you go down to the woods today… January
January’s ‘If you go down to the woods today’…… in just over 50 words. If you go down to the woods today listen to the ice crunch or the mud squelch underfoot. Look through the bare branches as zephyrs of … Continue reading
Big Garden Bird Watch 2017
Setting up my chair in the kitchen with the doors open to the garden, my camera, my notepad and pen and my breakfast on the kitchen table, I was ready to beginning the annual Big Garden Birdwatch. At 8.30am the … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, Citizen science, garden, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, RSPB, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged Big Garden Bird watch, birds, Blackbird, Blogging, Blue tit, Dunnock, Environment, garden, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, images, Jackdaw, Long tailed tit, nature, photography, Pied Wagtail, Robin, RSPB, wood pigeon
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Catching up with my garden wildlife
It’s snowing. I’m sat in a classroom watching the falling snow out of the window. I can’t wait to get home. Images pour in to my head. A badger plodding through a blanket of fresh white snow in the wood. … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, garden, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged Blogging, collared dove, Crow, Environment, fox, garden, images, Long tailed tit, nature, photography, Pied Wagtail, Rat, winter
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