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Wildlife Blog by Ron Allen – 8th January 2021

Happy New Year  8 January 2021

Welcome to my first post of the New Year.

It has been a cold and crisp first week and even the winter moths and winter gnats seem to have gone into hiding.  Our wild birds though are still about and a range have appeared in the garden. We have moved the bird feeders to the end of the garden away from our neighbouring chicken keepers to reduce the risk of spreading bird flu and so now creep up on them to see what is about. 

It is always good to see nuthatches feeding upside down and taking peanuts away to lodge them in tree bark and peck at them. Small flocks of long-tailed tits feed in wholly non-aggressive small groups. blue-tits, great-tits and coal-tits all take their turn at the feeders. On the trees have been great-spotted woodpeckers and feeding fast and furious has been a tiny tree creeper.  Down on the ground feeding in the leaf litter have been redwing, wood pigeon, blackbird, common thrush, magpie and crow. Robins are frequent and dunnocks skulk about the undergrowth. Here are a few quick photographs this first week of the year.

Clear evenings have produced some wonderful and quite spectacular sunsets.

Happy New Year to you all, take care and keep safe.

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Nuthatch in its characteristic pose upside down tweezing out the peanuts.
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Long-tailed tits fly to the feeder as a group and then leave and fly up into the trees before returning.
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Blue-tits are perhaps the commonest of the tits and flit about the trees and hedgerows.
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The dark chest stripe of this great-tit indicates this is a male.
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The tiny coal-tit seems less common, or least seen.
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Dunnocks, with their grey heads and red legs, spends there time skulking in the hedgerows.
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The marvellous little tree creeper feeds and moves quickly up the trees, always flying back down again.
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Redwings are forming wintering flocks out in the fields. This one appeared in the garden.
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Magpies rattle every time a cat comes by.
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One of our wonderful sunsets this week.

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