A Wild Life Blog

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Fox Cubs 1

One of six fox cubs in my friends garden, guess where I am spending every spare moment

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Fox cub playing

This fox cub had found a piece of leather and was throwing it around

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Mum and pup Nice to see mum with one of the cubs this evening

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Fox cub hide and seek Local cubs having some fun

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Bird with a beak full This dunnock was busy feeding its chicks

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Feeding Time I spent an hour watching the treecreepers feeding their chicks today and in that hour they brought food 30 times.

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Owl Box Update

Earlier in the year we put up two owl boxes for the tawny owls we have in the area and I’m happy to say we have chicks in one of them!!!

Unfortunately they’re great tit chicks!! They certainly have gone for the executive suite.

However the owls have nested in the same place as last year and we found two chicks braving the strong winds yesterday.

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Visitor on the lake

This whooper swan decided to drop in for a short visit and meet the locals on its way back to Iceland.

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Everybody was Coot Fu Fighting

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I’m On TV If you're in the UK check out the Channel 5 Series next week Monday to Thursday at 7pm called Wild Animal Rescue as they are featuring a couple of my videos!!! Look out for red deer rutting and a baby woodpecker.

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Blood, Sweat and Deers

Blood, Sweat and Deers

Each year when deer grow their new antlers they are covered in a downy velvet which supplies nutrients and blood flow to the growing antlers below. Come the Autumn the antlers are fully grown and the deer will scratch or rub them against trees and rocks to remove the velvet and reveal the antlers ready for the rutting season.

This young Sika deer was probably showing off his first set of antlers…

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A Mewling Buzzard

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One From the Weekend Taken before the heavens opened

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Owls and Kingfishers

At first glance apart from being birds you wouldn’t think there was much these two had in common. One is a silent land based predator, the other a multi-coloured waterside assassin. But when it comes to digestion they have one thing in common, they both regurgitate pellets made up of the indigestible leftovers from their meals.

Most people know about owl pellets and may at some time have…

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We're Going On A Snipe Hunt

We’re Going On A Snipe Hunt

Apparently in North America a snipe hunt is an elaborate practical joke where unsuspecting youngsters are sent out into the wilderness to hunt a mythical creature, the snipe. Which seems a bit odd when the snipe actually exists!

The snipe is a medium sized and very shy wetland bird which is distinctive because of the size of it’s bill, in proportion to the bird it is huge! You’ll definitely know…

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Eye to Eye Contact

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Tawny Owls

On a recent walk in the woods a tawny owl was spooked by other birds and flew into a nearby tree. After a good few minutes trying to relocate where it had landed, as its incredible camouflage blended it in perfectly with the trees, we managed to spot it and snapped a few pictures.

The tawny owl is about the size of a woodpigeon. with a rounded body and head and a ring of darker feathers around…

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