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Dec 4, 2010
Snowy Bird Visitors
A day of grey clouds and sleety drizzle, the snow is gradually disappearing. I had taken a few clips of video on the feeders over the...
Dec 2, 2010
Snowy Robins… and others!
With the snow falling and temperatures dropping, there has been lots of activity on the bird feeders and great photographic...
Nov 28, 2010
Feeder extravaganza!
I have gone crazy this weekend, making some different feeders to trial in the garden. It is not surprising I am getting a lot of birds...
Nov 28, 2010
Squash Feeder Instructions
I have been playing around today to try to create some fun instruction sheets for some of the feeders I have been making… here is the...
Nov 27, 2010
Make a Squash Bird Feeder
With the weather taking a turn for the worse and the birds hungry, today was a good day to make some bird feeders. I have been thinking...
Nov 27, 2010
Bullfinch Beauty
We woke this morning to a cm of snow and freezing conditions. As expected, the feeders have been very busy all day….. but today was...
Nov 13, 2010
Another new nestbox goes up!
This week I picked up another selection of nestboxes made for me by Ricky at Riverside Woodcraft (www.riversidewoodcraft.co.uk) I will be...
Nov 7, 2010
Creating imaginative nesting opportunities….
My aim this winter is to try to create some nesting opportunities within the garden for both photographic and cam potential. My first...
Nov 7, 2010
Weekend update
A busy weekend sweeping leaves….. and then sweeping some more leaves! The mouse cam box and the hedgehog box were empty so I re-filled...
Oct 31, 2010
Nut spike and nut ringlet added to feeder tree
Yet more added to my feeder tree today! I had read on the Dorset Wildlife Trust Twitter feed that they had pushed Brazil nuts into...
Oct 26, 2010
Some feeder shots…..
I snatched an hour yesterday, as it was such beautiful weather, to get some shots of the visitors to the feeders. There is growing...
Oct 24, 2010
Beautiful Greenfinch
Only had a few minutes with my camera on the feeders today, before the heavens opened and the light dropped… they love the black...
Oct 24, 2010
Feeder update
My feeder tree is growing! This weekend, when I was buying some more sunflower hearts I saw that they had some other types of seed. I...
Oct 24, 2010
Totem pole….. further development
The totem pole feeder I started last weekend has been attracting nuthatches…and squirrels! I hadn’t quite finished it last week, as I...
Oct 20, 2010
Wren Delight
Whilst out in the hide on Sunday a beautiful little wren was flitting around in front on the frosty stems. They move so quickly, it is...
Oct 17, 2010
Make your own totem pole…. for the birds!
I was all fired up this morning when I returned from photographing the kingfishers. Having taken down a tree house (that will be...
Oct 8, 2010
Today’s i-catcher footage
I watched a few different cameras today as I worked and put i-catcher on to catch a few snippets of today’s action! I have moved a...
Oct 1, 2010
Latest bird perch shots…
Yesterday, when the weather was considerably more clement than today, I took a few shots as I had my tea break! The birds are all using...
Sep 27, 2010
Weekend additions to the feeder tree….
Over the weekend, I added a couple of perches near to the feeder tree, ready for some photography….. I also attached a camera onto one of...
Sep 26, 2010
Today’s feeder visitors
Today I had some lovely new visitors to my tree feeder…. a group of beautiful long tailed tits. They have been flitting around in the...
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