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.

 

Excess apples for wildlife

My apple tree produced a lot of apples last autumn. I put some in the freezer and stored the rest in the shed on trays wrapped in newspapers.
Throughout the winter, I was able to throw a couple of apples every day for the wildlife to feed on, usually the ones that were starting to go brown. We are nearing the end of May and my stock of apples has just run out. Birds, such as black birds, magpies, crows, pheasants, robins and field fares really enjoyed them. Other birds might have eaten them too but I did not see it. Squirrels were fond of them too.
Below a field fare eating an apple. This little chap was quite a bully, chasing away any black birds getting near "his" apples! He seemed to waste more energy guarding the apples then eating them.

One Sunday morning, I noticed a (male) wiesel running back and forth in the front garden. It was looking for a baby mice (I think). It did find it but unfortunately I had stopped filming just before it picked it up and ran away... The video is a little shaky because the wiesel would not stay still