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Wonderful Woodpeckers!

This week I got third time lucky searching for the green woodpecker at Edenmill. The green woodpecker is also known as a “yaffle” because of its mocking, laughing call. It certainly seemed to be laughing at me trying to spot it and was a case of heard but not seen. There is one pair at…

Friday Foragers

At last, a dry day with morning and afternoon walks in the countryside with my camera and binoculars! Today I saw four jays and even managed to get this photo of one, albeit with branches in the way. They alerted me to their presence by squawking to each other. This morning we saw the canal…

Tenerife birds and butterflies

What a treat to get some winter sunshine in Tenerife and do some birdwatching there. No surprise that being on one of the Canary Islands we should come across lots of canaries. They are amazing singers. For about a hundred years in Britain, miners used to take canaries down the mines as the birds were…

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