Sea Gulls at Yew Court

When I'm in my garden at Yew Court, I often hear and see Sea Gulls flying overhead. Sometimes they can be very noisy as they screech and call to each other. Their cries sound almost human sometimes.

I love to see the sea gulls, I think they look very elegant. Often a lone seal gull glides serenely past, high up above in the sky.

Some days they are in large groups and I watch them as they circle and fly back and forth, calling and screeching.

Me and Richard love to take a walk and we usually see lots of Sea Gulls on the River. We live fairly near to the coast and the docks are nearby.

We see all types of Wild River Birds including an Oystercatcher, Herring Gull, Mediterranean Gull, Canada Goose and of course lots of Swans and Mallards.

Richard loves to photograph the wild birds and even though I am not impartial, I think his photography is getting better and better every day. Some of his photographs are truly stunning!

You can see more of Richard's photographs at Digital Photography Shots.

Autumn at Yew Court

Here at Yew Court the summer has drawn to close and autumn is here. There weather is turning cooler, although we are still having some sunshine during the day. One of the things I love to do is feeding wild birds in the garden.

I love to watch the different variety of wild birds in the garden. We normally have blackbirds, starlings, sparrows, doves, robins, green finches, blue tits, great tits and cole tits. Also the occasional wood pigeon and sometimes a magpie. The magpies don't often come into the back garden, although I have noticed a few in the front garden.

Just lately we have began putting high energy fat balls out for the birds as well as the usual bird seed and nuts etc. The small birds really enjoy the fat balls, especially the blue tits and great tits. We normally put the fat balls in a cluster of 3 so they are easy for the birds to land on.

We have also had a young starling land on the fat balls to eat them. They are a bit on the large size but they usually manage ok. I really like starlings, they are so comical. This year we have had a family of starlings come to the garden for food. They usually come in a gang of about 7 or 6 youngsters. They strut around the lawn looking for insects after the rain and they also love to bathe in the water containers we have around the garden. They are very entertaining to watch.

I think feeding wild garden birds all year round is very important, especially during the harsh winter months when live food is scarce. I feel very privileged to have so many beautiful wild birds come and visit my garden.

Hungry Baby Robins

We were right about there being a nest nearby. Baby robins have now appeared in the garden at Yew Court. They are so cute and fluffy. They are very tame and friendly and come right up to the back door for food.

One baby robin even came right into the kitchen. Of course he soon started to panick. Luckily I managed to quickly open the window and he flew out, none the worse for his experience.

The baby robins are now growing big and strong and are beginning to feed themselves although they still like to get their mum to feed them when they can get away with it!

Richard has managed to take some lovely photos of the mother and babies. They are very funny to watch.

He also took some great videos clips and we now have a utube channel for our videos. You can see it here

Friendly Robin Nesting Nearby

There has been a friendly robin around the garden at Yew Court lately. We think he must have a nest nearby because he has been very busy all day collecting pieces of bread and flying away and then coming back again and again.

It is surprising how much bread he can carry in his beak for such a small bird, he must be a very hungry robin. He is also very tame as Richard has been sun bathing on the lawn today and the robin has continued collecting bread from the lawn without seeming disturbed by Richard's prescence or the fact that he was also being photographed!

Summer at Yew Court

Summer has finally arrived again at Yew Court. It has been a long hard winter this year with lots of snow that stayed around for weeks on end. Summer has been a long time getting here, but I can now state that it has definately arrived at last with the last few days being very hot and humid. (Too hot in fact!).

There have been lots of birds around as usual, singing their pretty songs, building nests and having babies. We had blue tits nesting in the nesting box this year, they were flying around like mad collecting food for their hungry demanding babies.

Typically we missed the baby blue tits leaving the nest. We were so disapointed but as luck would have it, a few days later we spotted a baby blue tit in the garden. We felt sorry for him as he was a little lost baby blue tit and he looked so sad. But the story had a happy ending because he eventually found his mummy and they flew away together.

Digital Photography Shots

Finally got Richard's website Digital Photography Shots online and looking good!

I had to tweak the theme a bit and play around to get the categories to come out correctly but I got it working in the end.

We are both very pleased with the result.

My Cloud Photos

Just uploaded 4 more cloud photos to my photo gallery .

The last few days at Yew Court have been very cold and we have had lots of snow. Today the snow was quite heavy. By the time I went out it had got very icy and I slid all the way to the shop!