Wet Thursday night

Thursday had been very wet all day and into the night, but I decided to put the camera out to see if the hedgehogs still came despite the rain. I put all the food inside the feeding station as the hedgehogs don't tend to like it when it's turned to soup. Captures on the camera were well down with the camera only being triggered 12 times by hedgehogs throughout the night. That's compared to approximately 70 times on a warm night recently.

When daylight came, the camera was triggered a handful of times by the birds that come down to see what scraps of food the hedgehogs had left. Regular readers might remember that I had evidence of one cunning starling that had figured out that it could go inside the feeding station for, possibly, richer pickings. Well, as the following photos show, now it seems they are all at it!

Coal tits, blue tits, great tits, and a cameo appearance from a sparrow

Still in Pembrokeshire, here are the feathered visitors to the peanut feeder in my parents' garden on Easter Sunday.

Easter in Pembrokeshire

I'm spending Easter at my parents' house in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Mostly the weather has been too wet to go outside, but here are a few photographs I've taken so far including these blue tits (taken through the glass of the kitchen window), and a sequence of three photos of a woodpecker. In the third shot of the woodpecker, a sparrow has come down to feed on the peanuts and caused the woodpecker to take flight. The photo captures the woodpecker mid-flight in a flurry of motion.



The final photo I am showing you doesn't feature any wildlife. I thought it was interesting as the rainbow's end is in the field below my parents' garden. Am I supposed to go digging there for a pot of gold now?