Saturday, 22 February 2025

One Fox

 Hi everyone, this week's post is unfortunatley a bit short as the camera fell over on the first night out. It's annoying, as it didn't even pick up what knocked it over (it was probably the wind). Anyway, we did get one fox.



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Saturday, 15 February 2025

A Large Fox + Jays

 Hi everyone, this week we are back on the camera trap. Let's see what we have got over the past week.

On the first night, a few foxes came by. Some of them were quite big.






The big fox came back again. It must have been on a winter bulk after I've put out so much food.




We got loads of jays over the next few days. Iv'e picked out the best footage.








A squirrel and a jay:


A fox came back in the night.

Jays and pigeons in the day:




And a final jay this morning.


That is all for this week's post. Stay tuned for one new post every week (some time between Friday and Monday). Remember to leave a comment and thanks for reading.

Sunday, 9 February 2025

Mandarin, Chiffchaffs and Godwits

 Hi everyone, in this week's post we go back up to Sandbach Flashes in search of some black-tailed godwits, a bird I've never seen before. One of the first birds I saw was a Mandarin duck.



Here is some footage of a strange hybrid duck that is a cross between a wigeon and something else.


A few shelducks:




Wigeons:


Shoveler:



A heron:

Curlews:


The next birds I saw was a small flock of chiffchaffs, quite early in the year but it is a new bird for the blog.



Finally, I spotted the two black-tailed godwits that had been sighted here the last few days. It is also a new bird for me. They are the two further birds you can see in the clip. The closer ones are wigeons and lapwings.



That is all for this week's post. Stay tuned for one new post every Friday - Monday (most of the time).
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