Fallow Deer............................................................... Tatton Park Cheshire

White (Grey) Squirrel.................................. in the Northwich Woodlands

Red Deer readying for the Autumn rut...................Tatton Park Cheshire

"Feedin in the rain... just feedin in the rain"

My garden birds are on the feeders come rain or shine

Wonderful to watch

Wild Bird Wednesday

Toads doing what toads do during Spring

Common Toads (Bufo bufo) mating.

Spring time in the Northwich Woodlands.

Blue Tits feeding in my garden

Blue Tit's on my garden feeders...

...lovely little birds to watch.

They flit from feeder to feeder... fat balls to peanuts to sunflower seeds...
...busy little birds with a variety of tastes.

Linking to Wild Bird Wednesday and Saturday's Critters

Robin feeding from my hand

A short clip of a Robin feeding from my hand.

The clip was captured during the freezing winter of 2010/11


Marbury Country Park Northwich Cheshire... my local patch.

My favourite garden visitors of 2014...................................... Bullfinches

 A pair of Bullfinches visited my feeders daily for a couple of months earlier this year.

The clip starts with the female (with a Goldfinch behind) then the more colourful male.
Not a bird species I have seen very often in the 10 years I have lived here... so a bit special.

Wild Bird Wednesday

Following a Fallow Deer.......................................... Tatton Park Cheshire

A short clip of a male Fallow Deer... Tatton Park Cheshire

Fun feeding the birds at Grange over Sands

We went down to the Ornamental Gardens most mornings during our break at Grange over Sands.

This is a short clip of us feeding the birds.
Bar-headed and Snow Geese plus plenty of noisy/greedy Black-headed Gulls.

The geese followed us around as if we were the Pied Piper... it was fun feeding them.

On this particular morning we ran out of bread so crossed the road to the bakers to get some more...
...to our surprise they actually did "duck bread" or rather bread past it's sell by date.

All we had to do was donate some cash to charity... they gave us loads.

This video was captured using my little old (2007) Casio pocket camera... it still does a good job.

Warning... don't have your volume turned up too loud... they are rather noisy.

Wild Bird Wednesday

Wood Duck..... The Ornamental Gardens, Grange over Sands

Wood Duck

The video was taken with my little old (2007) Casio pocket camera...  it still does a decent job.

My little garden has been so colourful this year

My little garden has been so colourful this year.. both the flora and the fauna.

This is a remake of my last video clip... this time showing some of my visitors.

I love my little garden

I have planted my garden to try and attract more Bees and Butterflies this year.


It's looking really colourful and has been a success... more clips to follow.

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker

This is a longer clip of the juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker visiting my garden.

A daily visitor for about six weeks ... unfortunately it's not been for a while. 

Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)

A juvenile Blue Tit on one of the garden feeders... really enjoying the peanuts.

Lovely little acrobats to watch.

Wild Bird Wednesday

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker

I had a wonderful fifteen minutes watching and filming this juvenile GSW on my peanut feeder.

It's been in and out of the garden for a couple of weeks.

I set up the camcorder on a tripod at around 5.30am and left it running.

An hour later I had captured about ten minutes of usable video... well worth getting up early for.

Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)

I captured this Jackdaw feeding on the suet balls... it was the first time I had seen one hanging off this feeder.

Jackdaws have a reputation for inquisitiveness and opportunism.

The squirrel proof feeder doesn't deter the Wood Mouse

This feeder is six foot off the ground... he climbed up my fence... and jumped.

Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)

Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

Male Bullfinch on my garden feeder... it was only the 5th I have seen one in my garden in nine years.