Gwyllt Hollow; My new home
My new house used to be 2 quarry cottages and is a solid built stone house, that has been extended by the previous owner, who lived here...
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Sep 20, 2023
A New Chapter - Leaving Lichfield for South Wales
I have lived in Lichfield for over 25 years. I fell in love with this house when I first saw it. We drove up the lane and a fox jumped...
Jun 5, 2023
'Window to the Wild' - A collaboration with Hikvision
For many years I have been using Hikvision CCTV cameras for many of my wildlife projects. There are many different models and I have...
Mar 19, 2023
Mandarin Duck Visits.......
We have two owl nest boxes at Yew View. One is quite close to the house and this is the box that they choose to nest in. Sadly the eggs...
Mar 12, 2023
An Exterior Cam on the Stow Little Owls
Denis and I have been watching and discussing the little owl setup every day. We have been working on this project as a joint venture,...
Mar 11, 2023
Does a little owl food pass seal the deal?
The little owl pair have been spending part of nearly every day in our Little Owl box at Stow Maries Aerodrome. Denis and I have been...
Mar 7, 2023
Stow little owls showing nest box interest
After last week's interest in one of the owl boxes, there have been quite a lot of dramas. The jackdaws were also very keen on this box...
Feb 27, 2023
New Little Owl Box Cam
Stow Maries Aerodrome is a pretty amazing place for wildlife. For the last few years I have been working, alongside Denis Stretton, to...
Feb 24, 2023
Do my live cameras help you? An exciting new project!
A technology company in collaboration with the film production company Lonelyleap, are making a short film exploring how my wildlife live...
Feb 22, 2023
Sad news from Strix and Aluco
Over the last few weeks, many of us have been logged onto Aluco in her nest box, incubating her eggs. Tawny incubation is 30 days. We had...
Feb 12, 2023
Aluco loses one egg.....
Fairly soon after laying one of her eggs, eagle-eyed viewers spotted that one of the eggs appeared damaged. On reviewing the footage, it...
Feb 11, 2023
Tawny Dramas; limps, cracked egg and a 3rd egg
There has been a lot happening since the last blog post when I thought that possibly we were only going to have two eggs. Aluco lay these...
Feb 4, 2023
A Second Tawny Egg
After the excitement of egg one, it has been fabulous watching Aluco in the nest box and waiting for the next egg to arrive. As she has...
Jan 30, 2023
We have a Tawny Owl Egg!
For anyone who has followed me for a while, the names, 'Strix' and 'Aluco' will be familiar to them. These are the names I gave to the...
Jan 29, 2023
Big Garden Birdwatch 2023
Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife citizen science project, now in its 44th year. It’s an important part of what...
Jan 14, 2023
New Mammal Box for 2023
A new year and a new camera set-up! My mammal boxes have always been a favourite and it was one of my first projects when I started...
Apr 16, 2022
Mull break and an unexpected bat encounter!
This week I headed up to Mull, to visit friend Pete Walkden. I love coming up to Mull and it is good to get a good dose of sea air and...
Apr 8, 2022
End of an era....
This week has been an emotional one. as I finally left teaching after a career of 32 years! It has been a very difficult decision to...
Mar 17, 2022
Dramas in the Tawny Box
Aluco laid 5 eggs this year, which is the most she has ever laid. Three quarters of the way through incubation, all seemed to be going...
Feb 25, 2022
Are YOU a Bird Mastermind?
This year, at Michael Drayton Junior, I wanted to try to get the whole school to engage in the RSPB Big Schools' Birdwatch. I really...
Jan 30, 2022
Big Garden Birdwatch 2022
It's been a very busy month and I just can't believe that we have reached the end of January already and Big Garden Birdwatch time! I...
Jan 3, 2022
Building a dog crate feeding station
Sometimes a feeding station can become dominated by larger species, such as wood pigeons, jackdaws, crows and magpies, not to mention...
Dec 12, 2021
Things are getting exciting in the Stow Kestrel Box
When Denis and I planned the new kestrel box at Stow Maries Aerodrome, we were keen to get the box and the two new cameras up as soon as...
Nov 28, 2021
A New Tawny Box for my Garden
This weekend friend, Denis Stretton (of the Stow Maries Aerodrome kestrel box set-up) came up for the weekend, to help me with some of my...
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