Sounds to me possibly a cock pheasant, perhaps squaring up to a rival?
Sounds to me possibly a cock pheasant, perhaps squaring up to a rival?
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
Cormorant at Nanpantan reservoir, keeping an eye on all the anglers. Presumably if any angler had taken out a fish and not put it back, he would have had to contend with the sharp end of a beak.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
First wasp (jasper) of 2021! YAAAY! Summer's a comin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d5ZOgWZAmQ
Eat more cake because life is shorter than you thi...
Sunshine has brought out dozens of skylarks on the hill, lovely to see and here. Hundreds and hundreds of frogs in all the peat bogs - getting jiggy!
Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.
First genuinely interesting thing "captured" on my wildlife camera. A badger in some local woods. I have mixed feelings:
It's really nice to see a badger, but there are lots of gamekeepers round here, and I don't want it to be killed
But...
I don't want it eating my chickens.
Thankfully there are so many pheasants about as a distraction at the moment. We'll just have to remember to shut the coop up every night.