Birds

Big Garden Birdwatch – this weekend

Will try again tomorrow as light rain. You can hear background hum of birds up the trees but have to be something spectacular to get them to leave their nests today – only a large cheeky robin flew down for the bread and a buzzard and a seagull as we are not far from the […]

Ping

Baby bird

There is a family of blackbirds living in a honeysuckle bush on the back of our house. This is the first time they have nested there perhaps because this bush has become a little overgrown. The parents swoop in and out of the nest with a wiggly worm and call to each other when they […]

The Buzzard and the Crow

We live near the Downs – an open area now South Down National Park and noticed more and more buzzards congregating on field fences and wheeling in the sky and fewer and fewer wild rabbits. Yesterday the sky was empty, blue and sunny than the noise of a very angry bird, a crow got closer […]

Mickaboo’s Spring Lunch – Freemont California

We supported a Global Giving Project to rehome unwanted and rescued companion birds and the project is having a Spring Lunch in Fremont, California on June 3, from 11:30 – 3:30. Birds like Rainbow above need help – Rainbow made a bit too much noise and got evicted by his neighbours – but with […]

Richmond ‘Red Arrows’ Paraqueets

We were driving round Richmond Park this afternoon (dont need much of a reason to point the car in this direction) and funniest thing.. nearby in Kingston there are lots of escaped Paraqueets who seem to have made their way into Richmond Park and near the entrance lots of squawking and flashes of green as […]

Story of a peacock

“One day in September, Gary Michael got in his car and drove 730 miles from Kentucky to Louisiana. He was not alone… his passengers were peacocks…” more