Day at Windows on Wildlife hide
I had a great day out on Wednesday 26th October with friend Ange at Dean Mason‘s woodland hide. We had booked a combination day with 6 hours in the bird hide and 2 hours with the Harvest Mice but unfortunately the weather was not good for the Harvest Mice it
Fungi at Ringmoor
I wanted to get out and photograph some fungi before they disappeared, I had been unwell with Covid and it was the first time I had felt like going anywhere, it would be a leisurely walk under the trees using my powers of observation to spot the fungi. I decided
Constructing a Wildlife pond
Our garden was looking very sad over the summer what with not being able to work on it during the spring and then the heat and drought so I happened to mention to Rod it would be rather nice to have a wildlife pond at the bottom of the garden.
Birds of Poole Harbour Osprey Cruise
Early in September, Rod’s niece came to visit primarily to go on the final morning Osprey cruise of the year with Birds of Poole Harbour. The Osprey breeding programme has been doing well and a pair of Ospreys bred in the harbour for the first time for 200 years, they
RSPB Ham Wall and Catcott
I really do have some catching up to do! October has been a bit of a disruptive month firstly we built a wildlife pond, more to come in another post! Then we managed to get Covid and we are just beginning to come round from that so hopefully I’ll be
Autumn coming!
Looks like autumn migration is underway now at the beginning of September. Early in the morning on 1st September I spotted lots of Swallows gathering on the electric wires at the back of our house, busy preening their feathers and flying over the field feeding on insects. I think we
Humming-bird Hawk-moths
It was worth dead heading our straggly Buddleia bush to keep it going, I thought it wasn’t going to produce any more flowers because it has been so dry, but it’s trying, with a few small flowers enough to bring in a few Butterflies and a couple of Humming-bird Hawk-moths