I must apologise for not having entered anything for some time, but I have been busy with work, and I have also made a quick visit to Islay in order to make plans for a photographic visit there this winter.
July has been a month of frantic feeding of youngsters by the wildlife here at the […]
I pinched an early morning hour to see how the young kestrels were getting on after having left their nest in one of the barns.
I soon found them both on the paintball site and managed to psrk the car near to them. They are quite used to me now, and just carried on doing what […]
An excellent evening last night revealed 3 young hedgehogs in separate locations around the farm, all were 3/4 grown and quite independent.
An even better day today, when Terry and I found a family of 10 Grey Partridge here at Whyndyke, another 9 on a neighbours farm, and 3 separate groups of 7,9, and 11 at […]
As the apparent decline in the hedgehog population has been in the press recently, I thought it appropriate to carry out a quick survey here at the farm.
I quietly travelled the fields last evening and spotted 3 large adults, and a fourth with a missing back leg, but he was surprisingly mobile! I did not, […]