Magpies are definitely the biggest threat to songbirds around here. We do have some nesting in a hedge around our fields, their young are just about fledging, but they are not popular and often controlled by trapping around here as they can attack new born lambs, a friend has a one-eyed ram that lost an eye to a magpie or crow shortly after birth
Sadly the Canada geese have lost all 5 of their young, they are usually very diligent parents but weren't as sensible this year, choosing to spend the night beside the pond rather than on the little island where Mrs Goose had nested, no doubt the local fox family took care of them!
The wrens in the barn fledged yesterday, I was hearing the little cheep-cheeps around the yard and this morning they seem to have made the relative safety of the woodland garden, despite the thunderstorm. The swallows - 2 pairs only this year - are swooping in and out of their barn, lets hope they have a successful summer
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Theres a very easy way of telling the difference between a stoat and a weasel...
Weasels are weasely recognised, but stoats are stoatally different.
Magpies are definitely the biggest threat to songbirds around here. We do have some nesting in a hedge around our fields, their young are just about fledging, but they are not popular and often controlled by trapping around here as they can attack new born lambs, a friend has a one-eyed ram that lost an eye to a magpie or crow shortly after birth
Sadly the Canada geese have lost all 5 of their young, they are usually very diligent parents but weren't as sensible this year, choosing to spend the night beside the pond rather than on the little island where Mrs Goose had nested, no doubt the local fox family took care of them!
The wrens in the barn fledged yesterday, I was hearing the little cheep-cheeps around the yard and this morning they seem to have made the relative safety of the woodland garden, despite the thunderstorm. The swallows - 2 pairs only this year - are swooping in and out of their barn, lets hope they have a successful summer