This is probably the first year I have really watched what goes on in my garden. There is so much activity out there and since writing this Diary I am finding that I have only been slightly aware of it all. I never considered before what the visitors were actually doing as they scurried about… Read More Goings on

The weather is a little dull now but earlier this morning you could have easily been mistaken for thinking it was a summer’s morning. Just after 9am I set up my camera outside to see what activity I could capture around my small pond. Perhaps the Song Thrush would run around the plants or the… Read More The Chase

For some time now I have spotted a male blackbird with white marks on its head visiting my garden. The first time I saw it I do recall describing it to my daughter as “the Blackbird that must have knocked over a tin of white paint!” You can see why. I had no idea at… Read More Blackbirds with white feathers

Today I put out cheese out and set up the video camera to see if I could catch a Wren on film. I had seen this tiny little bird bouncing down the rocks that surround my small pond. Yesterday it looked like it went in one of the little cave pockets I built for it… Read More Who took the cheese?

This morning as I watched from my window the light came up outside. I became interested to see which birds were the early ones now. During October 2006 my daughter, as part of a school project, was counting and observing the birds before she went to school. I watched and counted with her – it… Read More Early Birds