Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Mar 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
Here are a list of birds I’ve seen this morning on my walk and in my garden. I saw these birds over the period of one hour.
I think I take birds a bit for granted so thought I would make a note of the variety I see.
1 CHAFFINCH. It’s white wings showed up as it flitted [...]
Posted in Bird Friends Around the World on Mar 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Ducks in town?
I was in a seaside town the other day in East Yorkshire when a movement on the edge of a car park caught my eye
It was a really busy area. At the other side of the wall was a busy road.
Then I saw duck number one being joined by duck number two -
It [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Have our moorhens been eaten by foxes? Poor Maisie Moorhen if this has happened
This summer for the first time we had two moorhens at the farm pond and I called one Maisie, in the end they were all Maisie.
They raised some young moorhens on this pond. The young moorhens were shy and timid until they [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I managed to get this photograph of one of our family or moorhens getting food from inside the meshed feeder. I had to take it through my kitchen window as moorhens are shy, nervous birds so the photo isn’t very good.
They bred on the farm pond for the first time this year. They skurry in and out [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Aug 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Moorhen - latin name Gallinula chloropus
Two small, tiny specks of life have appeared at the edge of our farm pond.
