Juvenile black bird eating a Bramley apple

In the wild, birds can't eat apples until the autumn when they are ready on the tree, so it is quite a treat for our feathery friends to get to eat them at other times of the year.
This clip was taken in May. The bird you see in the clip is a juvenile black bird who took a fancy to my apples. It would be one of the first animals to come and eat the apples I would put out every morning. As you can see, it just loved them!

Squirrel-proof peanut dispenser

We bought a squirrel-proof peanut dispenser that was put to the test by one of our resident squirrels. The squirrel ended up frustrated and angry. Is this cruelty to animals?? What do you think?

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: