Blue Tit Big Brother

Since this is a blog about the wildlife in our garden it seems only right to say a few words about the wildlife in our garden of the moment. Right now we’re on holiday and ‘our garden’ is the gorgeous St Martins Campsite on the Isles of Scilly. I first came here 40 years ago, [...]

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Time for an update on the rest of the garden…
The mini-meadow is still not a blaze of beautiful wild flowers, but it’s a lot better than it was last year. There’s clearly a lot of different species of something in there—it’s just that it’s mostly leaves at the moment, so I’ve no idea what they [...]

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Another sign that spring is coming. The frilillaries that we planted last autumn have come up around the pond. We noticed them last Friday, but just haven’t had time to get a photograph until now. Here they are…

Hopefully they’ll be more wildflowers to come.

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After watching a DVD yesterday evening (Beowulf—not nearly as bad as the opening scenes suggested it was going to be) we flicked the TV over to see if anything was going on on the PondCam. Three pairs of eyes glowed bright in the infrared light. After a while there was a good deal of splashing [...]

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Welcome back! The 2009 nesting season is almost upon us and things are looking interesting around the nest box.
Over the winter a great tit has taken to roosting in the box most nights. We’ve been wondering what would happen come spring.
Lately, a pair of blue tits have been hanging around quite a lot. Yesterday I [...]

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