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Aug 22, 2011
Another new feedercam!
I want to try to attract the woodpeckers and nuthatches to a feeder where I can capture them on my live cams. Whilst at Heligan, I saw a...
Jan 29, 2011
Big Garden Birdwatch 2011
I took an hour this afternoon to sit down in the conservatory and log the birds visiting for the RSPB Garden Birdwatch 2011. I was aiming...
Jan 22, 2011
Soap Dish to Mealworm Feeder!
I like to be creative in the garden and I’m always on the look out for a bargain!….. how about this ?? 1. Take one soap dish, reduced in...
Dec 23, 2010
Winter ‘Wonderland’??
With more heavy snowfalls in the Midlands, the area has been swathed in a blanket of white once again. The wildlife was once more relying...
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 4, 2010
Blackcap visits the garden!
I had a slightly unusual winter visitor to the garden today.. a male blackcap on my fat-bar feeder. I have seen blackcaps here in 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...
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
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 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...
Sep 17, 2010
Bird Feeder Visitors
The tree bird feeder that I set up has proven to be really popular…. the many branches mean that the birds have plenty of places to sit...
Jun 16, 2010
Bird feeder camera
I took the camera out of the mousecam box as it did not have IR and I wanted to be able to watch them at night. The camera I have now put...
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