Male moor hens showing aggressive behaviour

The following clip was taken by luck. I was actually looking for another bird that had arrived in the field next door to us. It features two male moor hens showing aggressive behaviour towards each other and showing each other bottoms. This must be quite an insult in bird's language, dont' you think?!

 

 

 

Chickens eat wild rabbit

Last March, I looked out at the window while working on my computer and noticed a magpie actively pecking at something at the top of the driveway. So, I got my camcorder out and filmed it. A little later, my two curious hens were at the scene, making the magpie fly away. They too started to eat that thing. I realised later that it actually was a young wild rabbit. See for yourselves:

Using human hair as nesting material

Put some hair in a corner of your garden and watch small birds help themselves during the nesting season. Below is a short clip of a great tit picking some lovely nesting materials with my husband's newly cut hair.

Cute baby rabbits

Here are a selection of pictures taken from a window into our garden. These wild rabbits are very young and only just allowed to venture outside by themselves. Enjoy!

Thieving squirrels don't like apple skin

My apple tree produced so many apples last autumn that I was able to store a lot of them in the shed and would throw a couple a day out for the birds to feed on.
Black birds, field fares, robins, mag pies, crow and blue tits are all the birds that I saw eat the apples (in order of frequency, black birds being the most frequent feeders).
But, there was another animal that also enjoyed my apples. It was funny to notice that squirrels don't like apple skin and spit it out to eat the flesh inside.
The only problem with squirrels is that they are really greedy and steal the apples away as soon as they are small enough to carry.
Below a little clip on my thieving squirrels:

Hen attack

Pheasants often come to our garden in the winter and spring to eat the seeds that have fallen down from the bird feeder.
I was filming a couple of female pheasants when something funny happened. This should make you smile.

 So, what did you think?

Young black bird

Below are a few pictures of a young black bird which had only recently left its nest. He/she was waiting patiently for his parents to come and feed him, looking around and pecking at things.