Hi all
Just an update on our regular Buzzard, "Bertie" at the feeding station this morning here in North Wales. Shots show the buzzard sitting in a tree around 10/15 feet away from my office awaiting me to set out his food this morning at around 8am. He then choses to carry off yet another slice of wholemeal bread to his regular feeding perch under some trees after being mobbed by crows. Notice the dead crow just in front of him being ignored in preference to bread. Thirty minutes or so later he came back again and started plucking another dead crow even nearer to my office before flying off with it to his feeding perch, obviously he likes to make sarnies :-)
We have a huge mixed flock of Golden Plover and Lapwings feeding in the fields on the coast near the caravan at the moment. They must number over 1000 birds with around two thirds of the flock Lapwings and the rest Golden Plover, a stunning sight as they move over the fields feeding and calling. They suddenly appeared in the fields when we had a series of light frosts over the weekend.
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What a brilliant view from your window, little work gets done then!
As for Bertie he must be a true Welsh buzzard, born and bread.
As for Bertie he must be a true Welsh buzzard, born and bread..........groan :-))
Actually Jeff one gets a bit complacent about it all after a while. That being said I do have to top up the bird feeding station, collect carcases for the buzzard feeding station. Feed my two wild feral cats (surprisingly enough they do not bother the birds at all) and check that the Hedgehog food is gone every morning. Amazingly we still have a small Hedgehog feeding in the garden on mild nights, last time we spotted it was the 9th December. I suspect as its still so small it does not hibernate properly as the four large hedgehogs we have have all dissapeared since late October, early November presumably to hibernate fully.
It's great that you have any hedgehogs at all, never mind 5 of them. We haven't seen hide nor prickle of a hedgehog for over 4 years now in our garden, and we had seen them for the previous 20 years of living here. Continue to enjoy all the wildlife you have over there, as you obviously do, and please keep up the regular updates as they are appreciated.
No doubt you'll let us know what manner of beastie is eating your Christmas cake left overs!
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