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21/10/2010
I´ve been thinking lately (although other people have been thinking this for a long time) that I´m a bit obsessed with the natural history side of things and forget that there´s a world beyond the feathers and fangs. So here goes.
Saw a kingfisher by my lake.....stop, what I meant to say was the following:
- Reconstructed new garden restroom, well that´s to please Trish but it would make a great boathouse and animal hide (did see a kingfisher whilst building it).
- Resurrected after ten years the tee-pee that was partly eaten by the deer...
- At long last the tavern has been re-roofed. At least this wasn´t eaten.
- Wonderful evening spent in the sacred space after Kieran and his friends had re-built our Woodhenge.
12/10/2010
Been an exciting six months, what with lack of grass, yes believe it or not it was a good summer for those of us fortunate enough to be outside all day. Pity about the first three weeks of august...
Been here so long now I am constantly surprised at how nature throws at you fresh encounters. You think you´ve seen everything and then out the blue something occurs that is little short of mind blowing. If I take the last four months and list briefly instances then you might get an idea of the wealth of natural history that surrounds us.
- 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 large amount of jelly fungi by river, not seen it before.
- 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 Wonderful display of parasol mushrooms in Sacred Space area. Best I´ve seen.
- 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.
Sometimes the only way to realise how mind bogglingly rich the area is, is to step back and coldly write it all down. Of course soon as you do that you get excited all over again. What a wonderful, wonderful six months this has been!
If your interested in any more details of some of the above, expanded stories and pictures are available here on the website under the relevant section. Or if you´d prefer, do the sensible thing and see for yourself.