Pheasant and Wood Pigeon

Here are yet more pictures of birds in our yard. Below is a Wood Pigeon - very large birds almost like chickens with voracious appetites. They are good looking birds but eating machines and commonly shot in the area for destroying crops. The second picture is a better close up of the pheasant.

Snow in the Village

Over the Weekend Liv and Downy came to visit us. The weather report said cold change but we did not expect this much change. We woke up Sunday morning hung over to the max and surrounded by snow - very pretty and cold for all the lambs.

Snow woman

Our Backyard

The paddock across the road with the lambs

Mole and Pheasant

Here are a couple of videos of a mole, very uncommonly seen above ground and another pheasant video. The Male Pheasnt was back again and very tame. I managed to get him with my video camera without going through dirty windows.

Mole Video

Pheasant video

New Birds in the Garden

Here is a video of a new addition to the garden, a Greenfinch. The one in this video is a male, much nicer than the drab female - unfortunately the bird world is so similar to our own!

Male Chaffinch - very hard to get standing still - a very feisty little fellow who fights with the robin

Male Greenfinch

Female Greenfinch

Collared Turtle dove - Now common in the garden and a huge consumer of food - also very randy at the moment.

Ring-Necked Pheasant

This morning we woke up to find a ring necked pheasant eating seed in our backyard. It was pretty cool as we have not really seen a wild one up close. He was about 2 metres from our kitchen window and seemed quite relaxed, hopefully he will come back, maybe with his women if he has any.