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Dec 30, 2017
Christmas Wildlife at Home catch-up!
It has been lovely to have a bit of time at home with my family and to add some lovely wildlife themed gifts to my growing collection!...
Sep 8, 2017
New Garden Feeding Stations
Over the next month or so, I will be having a range of new feeding stations coming online to live stream on my website. With Autumn...
Mar 8, 2017
A Brambling Visitor to my Patch!
This week I have been having a beautiful Brambling visiting. It is only the 2nd time, in nearly 20 years, that I have had this species in...
Feb 15, 2017
Bushnell Ladle Feeder
II have been experimenting with a range of different ways to simply set up a Bushnell camera to capture footage of feeding birds. When I...
Feb 8, 2017
Exciting new addition to the garden AND blackcap and siskin visitors…..
I have been delighted to have some new visitors to my feeders over the last few weeks and, if you watch my live cameras, I expect you...
Dec 27, 2016
Christmas Mice & Hungry Birds
With a bit of a colder patch lately and the natural food sources running low, there has been a lot of action on my rid feeding stations....
Dec 19, 2016
Kingfisher watch, snuggling mice and tawny stump potential…
I was keen to get back this week to see how the Tawny Stump was looking. Even with testing at ground level with lights and the camera,...
Sep 26, 2016
The First Day on the New Feeders….
Yesterday, I posted a blog post about two new feeding stations I have set up in my garden. These feeding stations live stream on my...
Sep 25, 2016
Wildlife Projects back in My Patch!
Projects back in my patch have been a little lacking of late. With lots happening at Yew View and other work commitments, my projects...
Jun 28, 2016
#30DaysWild – Day 28 What Busy Feeders!
Normally, at this time of year, I feed less food to the birds, but the feeders seem as busy as ever! There are lots of fledglings around...
Jun 10, 2016
#30DaysWild – Day 10 Fledgling Friday
It is always rather strange when I am left looking at lots of empty nest boxes on my cameras, but worth it when I see them all out in the...
Jun 6, 2016
#30DaysWild – Day 6 One perch….. how many species?
Today’s #30DaysWild was a challenge to see how many species use just one perch. This perch is right next to my hub feeders, so the birds...
Jun 4, 2016
#30DaysWild – Day 4 A Finch Fest….
I’m now back home in Lichfield and one of the first thing I did this morning was to fill the feeders up and make sure everything was...
Mar 12, 2016
A Real Feeling of Spring…
With the sun shining and its warmth now really tangible, I was out in the garden early this morning. The air was full of bird song; the...
Feb 27, 2016
Siskin Saturday…
I always have a good variety of birds visiting my garden feeders and these feeding stations both have cameras that live stream on the...
Feb 26, 2016
5 Minutes on my Garden Feeders…..
I have been working away for 2 days and, on my return, I always whizz through the icatcher footage on my computer, as my cameras record...
Feb 5, 2016
New Live Feeding Station…Squirrel Free….. so far!!!
I am always fighting a battle to keep the numerous Grey Squirrels in my garden, from eating all my expensive seed mixes! It is a common...
Jan 3, 2016
Home Grown seed mixes & feeder with 100 yr guarantee now on trial!
When a feeder advertises itself by stating it will ‘never rust, peel or be destroyed by squirrels – ever’, it is bound to catch my...
Feb 22, 2015
My Fantastic Feeder Visitors!
If you are familiar with my website, you will know that I live stream from two feeding stations in my garden… from my Hub Feeders and my...
Jan 31, 2015
Big Garden Birdwatch 2015
The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch is always an event I look forward to. Choosing an hour in the day to record all the species that visit your...
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