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Oct
29
Oct
29
I’ve been pond watching in my garden and I must admit I was quite surprised how many different bird species were flying backwards and forwards to wash (do birds wash or bath?) and drink. As an experiment I set up my miniature camera near the pond so that I could count them all. Nine different species or more???
Take a look at the footage below. I think nine different species (maybe even eleven) visited the pond to drink or wash. I’m not sure you will agree. Let me know what you think.
I will post the
Oct
12
Oct
12
dorset, mammals, nature, wildlife, bank vole, common shrew, corfe mullen, corfe mullen meadow nature reserve, moths, wood mouse, yellow-necked mouse
Part two of our Nature Watch “Moth & Mice” event started early on a bright misty Saturday morning. Like a small child, the first thing I did when I arrived on the reserve was to check one of the small mammal traps. Well… the door’s closed, so we must have a visitor!
One of the 30 Longworth small mammal traps placed around the
Reserve the night before - and the door is closed!
Our nature reserve in Corfe Mullen is not what you would call big. In fact it consists of one small hedged field with a s
Aug
26
Aug
26
Help needed! What the hell is this animal making a dash across my garden the other night? Caught on the infra-red night camera at 1.34am. I’ve never seen it before and haven’t seen it since!
All suggestions gratefully received. I know what I “think” it is…. but I’m keeping stoom until I’ve heard some of your imaginative ideas…. Thanks
Aug
16
Aug
16
It has been ages since I did an update on the foxes and badgers, so last night I set up the front garden infra-red camera and captured some film overnight. I’m pleased to report that everyone seems to be fit and healthy!
One of the foxes from last night
First we have the foxes. There were at least two in the garden. Both looked very fit (no mange) and have put on quite a bit of weight over the summer. I’ve been trying to ID them and I think they must be the two youngsters from last year.
They kept trip
Jul
22
Jul
22
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
Jul
11
Jul
11
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
Apr
27
Apr
27
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...
