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Garden Nature – Sparrowhawk

Blasdale Home Posted on February 3, 2023 by SteveFebruary 3, 2023

1st January 2023

The New Year brought with it the Sparrowhawk. It spent an exceptionally long time perched in the tree by the bird feeders. Most of the time was spent preening. Needless to say, there were no songbirds in the vicinity. I took several (hundreds) of photographs, which I have trimmed down to this lucky sequence of it emptying out our songbirds in one avian excretion.

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Sparrow Hawk
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Garden Nature – Grey Heron

Blasdale Home Posted on February 3, 2023 by SteveFebruary 3, 2023

2nd February 2023

Rosemary spotted a Grey Heron near the field pond. I rushed out to take a photograph. I was far from it, and it was standing down the slope to the pond, so little of the Heron was in sight. I grabbed a few frames from about100 meters away, and then walked towards it. Of course, it flew off.

I looked at the frames I took, not technically good, but you could see it was eating a frog or toad. So worth keeping them. I think it was a Toad, and so does Rosemary.

Grey Heron
Grey Heron
Posted in Buckinghamshire, Kingswood, wildlife | Tagged Frog, Grey Heron, Toad | Leave a reply

Our very Own Otter

Blasdale Home Posted on February 3, 2023 by SteveFebruary 3, 2023

2nd January 2023

The wildlife camera threw up an interesting find. In between the rabbits, muntjac deer and the foxes, was an Otter. We have seen it only once. Maybe it was exploring the pond. There are several ponds in the immediate vicinity, many with fish. Our pond dries out in the Summer so not suitable for fish. Anyway, nice to see it, a change from Rabbits and Foxes.

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Fox Cubs

Blasdale Home Posted on December 31, 2022 by SteveJanuary 28, 2023

Back in the late spring, early summer of 2022, we had a skulk of foxes in the field bringing up four fox cubs. We believe it was two vixens, with a couple of cubs each. Normally we would see two cubs at a time, but on occasion another two cubs would come from the other side of the mound and join in with the play. One set of cubs disappeared during the summer. We assume (hope) they moved on somewhere else. The cubs are now fully grown, and we have seen them since this video was put together.

You can watch the short edition, a little over 5 minutes, or the long two and a quarter hour video. The longer video also stars Badger, Muntjac deer, Squirrels, rabbits, Great spotted woodpecker and various other birds.

The Highlights

Five minutes and 52 seconds showing the highlights of the cubs.

The Full Monty of a Video

Two hours and 19 minutes. The full monty.

Posted in Buckinghamshire, Kingswood, wildlife | Tagged Badger, Fox, Great spotted woodpecker, Muntjac, squirrel | Leave a reply

Still Four Fox Cubs

Blasdale Home Posted on May 5, 2022 by SteveJune 30, 2022

I missed several days of fox cubs, they run the battery down on the camera in only a few days. One night the fox cubs spent the whole of darkness playing! The Infrared light soon depleted the battery! The batteries changed and, on the 4th and 5th of May the Fox cubs are still around. A little bigger, now steady on their feet and much more active.

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