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April 30, 2019 - As April ends then - and with that the swifts arrive... It's worth noting that on average, where we live, we would expe...

April 28, 2019 - A brief(ish) post today as I've been rugby coaching and gardening all day, plus showing Ben a barn owl (a proper, live,...

April 25, 2019 - On one of my poddlings around the town today (I needed a haircut and thought I'd walk 5 miles around the area afterwards...

April 21, 2019 - I must have blogged here over the last however-many-years I've been running this website that I have a lifelong-fascinat...

April 19, 2019 - We (and by "we", I mean my family here in East Berkshire, England) are used to seeing red kites, constantly. To be hone...

April 17, 2019 - Yesterday I blogged that I thought that perhaps our single male hedgehog had (at last) made a break for it. But last ni...

April 16, 2019 - We have a pair of blue tits nesting in a nest box which I've screwed to a north-facing wall by our bathroom window. A bo...

April 16, 2019 - Regular reader(s) of this blog will know all about our single male hedgehog and my efforts to try and cajole him to leav...

April 10, 2019 - Although I HAVE seen my first swallow of the year at the golf course t'other day, I've not been able to get out as much...

April 06, 2019 - As regular reader(s) of this blog might appreciate, I've been using trail cameras to record videos of wild animals for s...

April 02, 2019 - Far from disappearing forever to the land of milk and honey, after discovering the tunnel I chiselled under our side doo...

April 01, 2019 - A couple of days ago, I blogged about our randy, but frustrated (if hedgehogs get frustrated as such) male hedgehog. I...

April 01, 2019 - I was sitting under one of our poplar trees in the garden today, at lunch. I was sitting in a garden chair - soaking up...