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After a long day, me and Colin built the Fence to close off the Hide area. With just the gate to build it looks reallly good and will stop the Horses getting in.

After a really bad month of rain and wind the wildlife on the park have come through it well with many birds still visiting  my feeders daily. The Greenfinch have 5 to 6 young and all have done well feeding on Sunflower. I had to take drastic measures when it came to the feed as… Read more »

The siskin is a small, lively finch, which is smaller than a greenfinch. It has a distinctly forked tail and a long narrow bill. The male has a streaky yellow-green body and a black crown and bib. There are yellow patches in the wings and tail. It is mainly a resident breeder from southern England… Read more »

The young Willow Tit visited the feeders this week and fed on the Niger seed. Between blue and great tits in size, with no yellow, green or blue. It has a large sooty-black cap extending to the back of the neck and a small untidy black bib. It is mid-brown above, with whiter cheeks and pale… Read more »

Although the weather is bad the birds have done well with the young all having at least 2 juveniles.

June has been a great month for our feathered friends most birds around the park have had young fledge, and the Blackbird and Songthrush have had 2 broods. You may have noticed a lack of birds at the feeders but this is the norm for June. All the hard work done the young will be… Read more »

Brown Hares graze on vegetation and nibble bark from young trees and bushes. Hares shelter in a ‘form’, which is simply a shallow depression in the ground or grasses, but when disturbed, can be seen bounding across fields using their powerful hind legs to propel them forwards, often in a zigzag pattern. They are commonest… Read more »

Great to see the Swallow young ready for fledging.Swallows are small birds with dark, glossy-blue backs, red throats, pale underparts and long tail streamers. They are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time on the wing. They are widespread breeding birds in the Northern Hemisphere, migrating south in winter. Swallow numbers in… Read more »

The Bullfinch arrived late April and have visited daily to the Sunflower feeders outside teh Van at Birchwood. They mainly feed on the groung but i have found that they will feed from the plastic clear window feeders. On Sat 2 young came with the parents and looked for food on the ground. It is… Read more »

Many birds have fledged or are about to fledge so this is a time for site members to keep an eye out for young birds that have fell out of the nest or wondered away from the adults. Simply place the bird in a safe area, under a shrub or back in long grass where… Read more »

Walking around the Park yesterday i came across a Great Spotted Woodpecker nest near the Pond close to the Hide. The nest is in a old Silver Birch tree with 2 Fungi above and below it. This is common for the nest to be underneath Fungi. i found it because of the noise coming from… Read more »

The Roe Deer are in the Hide are on a daily basis, leading me to think that this could be a family group. The female was spotted feeding the day before in the meadow in the field near the hide. Today as i was checking the wildlife Trail camera i looked through the meadow and… Read more »

Great news the Song Thrush has her second brood in the woods along the Woodland Walk.

Good news the Wren young have fledged i think there are 3 young Wrens. Just a matter of time to see if the birds survive with the many preditors that are around.

The Treecreeper this morning. The treecreeper is small, very active, bird that lives in trees. It has a long, slender, downcurved bill. It is speckly brown above and mainly white below. It breeds in the UK and is resident here. Birds leave their breeding territories in autumn but most range no further than 20 km…. Read more »

The smallest bird in Britain the Goldcrest can be seen all over the Park if your eyesight is good. They flit about the trees rarely stopping so to get a good photo is very difficult.

Lovely sunny morning made better by the Young Tawny Owls sunning themselves  in the pine tree.