Over the past year, or two, I've recorded the efforts we've made to provide the local bird population with an adequate food supply during (by south of England standards) the quite severe weather conditions we've experienced during recent winters. As a consequence we've been rewarded by a succession of visitors outside (somewhat appropriately) our kitchen window - and, as I've also mentioned, those visitors haven't only been of the avian variety.
For example, local foxes have become interested and - more excitingly - it appears that we've been added to the route march which a neighbouring badger family undertake each night. Not surprisingly, catching these nocturnal visitors on camera isn't that easy; however, daytime visits aren't as difficult - and, here's one of them.........
Even more intriguingly, during this visit from a local squirrel (see above), he/she was joined by one of a number of pheasants who inhabit our woodland......
