There are four new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. Nearly out of photographs.
A perfect winter sky in November, near Oban.There was the most horrendous storm the day after.You could hardly stand up! Lindsay.
The Woodpecker…..Anjela. Connecticut.
I had NEVER seen a starling in our garden! On Friday evening, Chris looked out and saw a couple on the patio. Yesterday, however, there was a mini invasion of at least 12!! They took over the place! Even the local Robin was looking somewhat shocked, and he is usually quite aggressive towards visitors! I’d put out some meal worms – some dry and some rehydrated on a plate of water and within moments they’d all disappeared! It was quite amazing to watch! They were gathering up maybe six at a time in their beaks! So I put out some more, on the patio and on the bird table along with a scattering of birdseed. And they came back to scoff the lot!! I’ll just have to see whether they stay around! Julia.
Red squirrel on the Isle of Wight. Lisa, Eastleigh, Hants.
Last year Ewy would just hang around with Breeze when they were in the Horse field. When we put the Mares and Foals in the field she has been getting very close to them. Since putting Willow and Gypsy in the field last night, she has started to latch onto them as well, this evening when we fed the Fillies in the field Ewy tried to eat their feed with them.
It seems that Emmi is going to be the leader in the field until we introduce Breeze. She wont allow Willow and Gypsy to close to Lady and the Foals, she lunges at them with her ears laid back on her head every time she thinks that they are to close. It wont be to long for the Fillies to get close to the Foal, and for them to run with them for part of the time. Willow has a few scrapes to her chest where she fell over yesterday when we turned them out into the Horse field. I should think that she did hurt herself, but she seem fine today.
The Goslings are getting a little to independent. They are going off on their own to the annoyance of the Goose who has to follow them, if they are not careful the Fox will get them. We took the battery off of the electric fencer to recharge it, to make sure that the fencer would give a good shock if the Fox decided to try to get through it. Whilst it was on charge It looked as if the Goose and the Gosling may have got through it, as they were grazing on the outside on the left hand side of the fenced area. I don’t think that they had walked around the Lake to be where they were, if they did and they do it at night they will definitely get had by the Fox.