Garden Wildlife UK

Willpar wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2025 9:35 pm

Brought the cameras in this morning and not a blackcap in sight.

Bit of a shock. It must have had a better offer elsewhere.

The male blackcap has been with me for a few weeks now but there was no sign of the female. Today she appeared pushing and shoving on the SF seed feeder with the goldfinches and the greenfinches.

I saw two Dunnocks doing a mating display!
It takes more than a little freezing weather to delay their love life.

Looking at the cameras footage, there are three hedgehogs visiting at the moment. A large one, then a medium and a small one. On the 14th when i went out with some food there were two together in the garden. The cold weather didn't deter them for long. I am waiting to see if any appear this year wh...

Amazing! I'm not expecting to see any butterflies up here or any other insects. Well spotted Willpar.

It has been a very cold week but most of the time I've been able to have water available in at least one of the bird baths or the ponds. Last night was the coldest so far and all their water was frozen solid. It was a minimum of one inch thick on the ponds. Using hot water and a jug I managed to tha...

I read an interesting article about Robins in the BTO's weekly newsletter. We are all familiar with their habit of turning up whenever there is any human activity in the garden. We also know that some Robins become almost tame and will take food from our hands if it is offered. Apparently these trai...

The berries on the ivy are being eaten by the Woodies. The berries are still green but seem irresistible to the pigeons, The was 7 of them gobbling them down this morning.

I has a "family" of 6 LTTs on the fatball feeder this afternoon until they were bullied off by a Blackcap!

A very windy and rainy day and I have seen very little wild life. I don't blame them as I could have stayed in bed and missed nothing.