Short Eared Owl Success
Monday, June 21st, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »It is always good to follow a nest right through to successful fledging. Well here is a picture of a young Short Eared Owl, four weeks old, that has just received a vole from the male. Shortly after I took ...
Hen Harrier Stars
Sunday, June 13th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »A week on Islay filming Hen Harriers is about as good as it can get in Britain from a wildlife point of view. When you spend hours in a hide looking directly at a female hen Harrier relaxed on her ...
Islay Break
Monday, June 7th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »As promised last week this week's photo is of a Nuthatch leaving its nesting hole, which last year was a Green Woodpecker's nesting hole. Nuthatches use mud to reduce the hole to their size as can be seen in the ...
Garden Visitor
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »The star bird of the garden this week has been this Greater Spotted Woodpecker who has been taking away large amounts of food to feed his young still in the nest on Hopwood. I have spent the last eight nights filming ...
Long Eared Owl Success
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »This weeks photo is of a fledged young Long Eared Owl with a vole in its talons. If last week was all about Dotterel then this week is about Long Eared Owls. I have spent many nights under a camouflage cloth ...
Dotterel Magic
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »There are some days while watching birds that only come along once in a lifetime, Saturday 8th May was one of those days. I had been out in Bowland all day looking for nests to film in the coming weeks ...