CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Magpie having a bad-feather day. We’ve had a couple of dismal days recently, with incessant heavy rain from dawn to dusk, and the magpie f...

  The wood pigeon breeding season in our garden never seems to end, but it reaches a peak in spring. Show-off parabolic flights, ridiculous ...

  Excited male tree sparrow, displaying to a potential mate, in the garden earlier this week. Flitting around her, cocking his tail, trembli...

  Magpies have nested successfully again in a hawthorn near the end of our garden and their fledglings, now well grown, have been harassing ...

  Fields here have been blanketed with snow, and the ground frozen rock-hard, for four days now, so these are tough times for birds like roo...

 Blue tits and long-tailed tits often seem hyperactive, constantly searching for food. A moth larva would be a good meal, but they also eat ...

  We encountered this female goosander and her nine ducklings, not long out of the nest, when we were crossing the footbridge over the river...

  At the end of January I wrote a post ( here ) about the conflict at the end of our garden between carrions crows and magpies, competing to...

 The recent freezing weather brought yellowhammers into the garden. Tree sparrows dominate the pecking order on the bird seed feeders but th...