Wildlife

Is there anything better than watching birds? I never thought I would say that sentence out loud 😊

One of the first things we did when we got this lovely garden was put in some bird feeders.

We have seen some amazing birds in the garden, some of which we had forgotten about. Coming back from NZ, we were amazed by the number of species we saw… honestly!

We get to sit and watch them at the feeders, going back and forth all day long. We put out sunflower hearts and peanuts. Blue tits LOVE peanuts!
We are also lucky enough to have other visitors to the garden. We have seen everything from roe and fallow deer to hedgehogs, frogs, squirrels, weasels, mice and countless butterflies and insects.
They all go about their business as if we were invisible.
Our house and garden has been here for two hundred years and we are just custodians in part of its long journey.

We feel blessed to live here and add to the history of this place. We are doing our best to leave it much better than we found it.

For your interest, here are some of the amazing birds we get to see:

Tawny owls 

Blue tits

Great tits

Goldfinches 

Sparrows 

Blackbirds

Coal tits

Greenfinches 

Bullfinches

Chaffinch 

Siskins

Wrens

Robins

Buzzards

Sparrow hawk

Woodpeckers 

Wood pigeons 

Crows

Dunnock

Swallow

Magpie

Wagtail