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Jul
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At last - this week the sun has appeared and with it a load of different insects have descended on my garden. Bees, butterflies and hover-flies of all types are now busy buzzing round the flowers. However, this afternoon we had an unexpected but seemingly-friendly visitor.
Female Southern Hawker Dragonfly
I’d been trying to film grasshoppers in the “top meadow”. I say meadow, it’s really just a small patch of uncut grass with a few wildflowers. Anyway, I was lugging my lump of a camera and tripod b
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Jul
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So they made it through the night. With all that rain and wind I did wonder whether the two little chicks would be ok, but they were still waving their little beaks around begging for food at 7am this morning…. except now there were three!
The picture above shows Mum feeding the youngsters this morning
The pair have been flying backwards and forwards all day catching flies of differing sizes and types for the kids. It’s hard to know what they all are but I’m expecting hoverflies, wasps and mozzie
My Nature Watch Corfe Mullen project moved into top gear this week with the first of our local Wildlife Events, a Nightjar & Glow-worm Twilight Wander on Barrow Hills, but did we see any? wander over to the website and read the event report for the full low-down of the evening. The second exciting thing that has happened this weekend is the hatching of my spotted flycatcher chicks.
Here you can see the proud parents having a bit of a shouting match at 9.45am this morning. Maybe they knew that something wa
Lying in bed yesterday morning half asleep Andrew (husband) suddenly said to me “what’s that bird on the telephone line?”. I have to admit I couldn’t believe my eyes. There on the line sat a small, perky little spotted flycatcher. Then she was gone. But where?
I raced into the office (only two rooms away) turned on the flycatcher nestbox camera and low and behold there it was sitting on the edge of the nestbox! For the rest of the morning I watched as the pair flew backwards and forwards taking ne
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Apr
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Last Sunday I spent the evening watching badgers in deepest-darkest Dorset.
The farmer who owns this land has set up a hide for people who want to watch the badgers. He also puts some very tempting peanuts down for them! Every night they come out of their sett and wander down to the peanut-field in front of the hide.
It was wet, cold and generally a bit rubbish for badgers…. but we were lucky.
We ended up seeing three badgers. The footage is pretty “damp” looking (as it̵...
Mar
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Mar
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LIVE during the day watching the Spotted Flycatcher nest and in the evenings to "fox watch". I apologise if the webcam is offline when you visit. Come back again and hopefully it will be live!
Mar
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Mar
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Not videoed by me (unfortunately) but a wonderful video of a fox having a lovely time on a trampoline. By the way, I have no idea what the big "ball" is...
Apr
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Apr
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On 20th April approx 16 members of the Dorset Badger Group went to Badger Watch Dorset, where you can sit in the comfort of a warm hide and watch wild badgers come out of a natural sett and feed right in front of you.
It was a wet evening (so the badgers look a bit wet and bedraggled) and the windows of the hide were furred up and wet.
Hopefully you can get some idea of how beautiful these creat
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