Yay… Hedgehog Manor (recycled guinea pig hutch embedded in garden border) is open to diners once again! Sunflower hearts were on offer during the snowy spell in late March, just in case any hungry hedgehogs newly emerged from hibernation were out and about. There was also a dish of water available as they would also… Read More Hedgehogs visiting garden again 🙂
What a sweetie… See original video source here. Note this is not my video.Video location: overlooking Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. Previous post: Photos and video of Great Spotted Woodpecker family. This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in July 2012.
Yep… the title tells all! Tea/coffee, biscuits, cheese and peanuts were on offer. You can guess who the peanuts were for. Despite being offered a variety of other foods they are the favourite of the Pine Martens visiting this Scottish Wildlife Trust Reserve.The Visitor Centre at Loch of the Lowes is usually closed at this… Read More Pine Marten Evening
Speeding along my trimmed hedge and circling in the main open space of my garden bats were seen tonight. What a treat to capture some video of them too! It was dusk and the pipistrelle bats were seen in various sizes. I am guessing the really tiny ones were quite young – they were almost… Read More Bats flying tonight
The contestants are beginning to appear. The line-up stands at three and late arrivals are still welcome! The challenge – to see what wildlife visits a pond at this time of year. I knew we had a toad around our small pond and after spotting it last week I wanted to see what else did.… Read More Big brother – come back please
…. we have red and yellow meconopsis too! Yolanda from the Netherlands discovered on her recent garden tour of Scotland that there are blue meconopsis in many gardens here. Perhaps that is a surprise to others too.What isn’t as common is the red and yellow ones but I found some on a recent visit to… Read More Not just blue…
Last week I visited the Scottish Wildlife Reserve at Loch of the Lowes to see if I could capture the red squirrel on video. This reserve has a good sized viewing window looking out to feeders on trees and on the ground. I have seen squirrels there before however I was to get quite a… Read More Table for one
As expected, my post on squirrels has caused a bit of a stir but although this is my most recent wildlife visitor by no means have I shown all the wildlife that visits my garden! I have shown birds and hedgehogs but there have been other tiny visitors that are very difficult to catch on… Read More Missing Wildlife
Well, once again wildlife has found my garden after I have put out food for the birds. The peanuts have done it again! Although I have feeders for the birds I usually only put sunflower hearts in them. I tend to scatter peanuts and sultanas on the ground often under the little Acer tree, at… Read More Grey Squirrel hides peanuts!