Showing posts with label fox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fox. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

The Forest of Dean part six

 We visited the Nagshead Nature Reserve which has a couple of hides. We found the Lower Hide with little trouble but unfortunately, we didn’t see anything there. The Campbell Hide proved slightly more difficult (for us) to find. We left Lower Hide and headed back to the carpark for a bite of bait. After bait we saw a sign for the Campbell Hide which was pointing to a path which went uphill. However, to be on the safe side we asked a fellow photographer for directions. He said follow the path then turn left. We did this for probably ¾ of a mile and did not find the hide so we turned around and headed back to the carpark. On the way back we saw another photographer and asked him for directions he said as he was going to the hide, he would show us the way. It turned out the hide was no more than fifty yards from the carpark we had walked all that way for nowt. It wasn’t all for nowt after all because when we did finally get into the hide I did not expect to see half the things we saw. It’s because of this that this Blog has more images than I would normally use.

Fox Cub. It didn’t look up once and I didn’t see any adult so I hope it was ok.




Fallow Deer.

Hawfinch.






Spotted Flycatcher.


It’s not often you get Firecrest (only the second time I have seen one) and Spotted Flycatcher in the same frame.

Firecrest.




Goldcrest.




Male Pied Flycatcher.




Female Pied Flycatcher.

Blackcap.


Mistle Thrush.

Song Thrush.


Male Siskin.

Female Siskin.

Treecreeper.

Goldfinch.

Blackbird.

Wren.

Blue Tit.


Saturday, 6 April 2024

Earlyish morning stroll

 30.03.24 Just a short local stroll the other morning once again produced some canny wildlife.

They may be distant but it’s great to see the pair of Little Owls once again.


By the time I was a little closer one had flown off.

Then it was having trouble from the Jackdaws. I love the expression on the Little Owls face.


But it was eventually left in peace to enjoy the sun.

Again, distant but Foxes were something I didn’t expect to see. They weren’t around long but it was great to see them sniffing around the field.








Unfortunately, the Roe Deer didn’t come as close as they did the other day.

This little Wren was flitting from branch to branch belting it out.