Animals

12/10/2010

An Ornithological Sightings Summary of the birds sighted at wilderness farm written by Bill Devereux is available as a pdf below

April At long last jackdaws visit feeding station
May Bird boxes producing a lime hawk moth, rare for this area.
May Interesting sighting of stoat by two people and a ferret...
May New grayling discovery.
May Red Start Inspecting nesting box.
June series of sparrow hawks feeding at bird table but not on the peanuts...
June The creation of a new badger viewing hide plus banqueting area...shame it´s for the badgers not us.
July Badger and wasp photographic attempt.
July Peregrines busy over our land pigeons not so happy. I´m surprised that sometimes they only appear to have eaten their heads.
July Successful raven breeding season. Largest number of young I´ve seen.
August first batch of rescued hens brought on site, start of wilderness Save a Hen scheme.
August Young naturalists constructing new homes for birds.
September Ever seen a badger climb a fallen tree? Well I hadn´t until now.
September Fox cub release
September Largest group of goldfinches seen this year
September Success part in thanks to Pats photographic skills again in the water boards construction of fish ladder after seeing photographs of damaged fish.