Can You Spare A Feather?
Sunday, March 29th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »A wild and windy week but it has not stopped the Long Tailed Tits gathering feathers to line their nest's with. All six nests that I have found are now at this stage and when you consider that some one ...
Good To Be Nesting Again
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »High pressure all week and I have been actively checking nest sites to the north of Rochdale in perfect conditions. A pair of Long Eared Owls is always good to see and the female must soon start incubating in an ...
Breeding Season Begins
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »After the harshest Winter for years I have finally found two pairs of Long Tailed Tits building their nests in Hopwood woods - only seven days later than last year. On the 12th a Pipistrelle Bat was active at dusk as ...
The Villain Returns
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »This male Sparrow Hawk on the bird bath was one of twenty species in the garden on the third March. A pair of Bullfinches also fed and there was a welcome return of the Willow Tit. On Hopwood a Woodcock was ...
Roe Deer At Dawn
Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »An incredibly mild and dull week for our last week on Islay with a maximum temperature of eleven degrees on one day and a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly on another We saw a further two Otters but both vanished and gave no ...