The jay has become a regular visitor to our garden over the last month – even appearing on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. He seems particularly fond of the peanuts I regularly leave out for the squirrel.
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Jay
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: bird, british wildlife, jay, nature, photo post
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Jay
Last week I chanced to look out into our garden and saw this wonderful jay. I was taken a bit by surprise as we’ve never had one in the garden before but it was lovely to see it hopping around the trees and even taking a big chunk out of the fat balls!
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: bird, british wildlife, garden, jay, nature, nottingham, nottinghamshire, photo post, wildlife
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Autumn at Woodthorpe Grange Park
Just over a week ago I took a walk around Woodthorpe Grange Park as I wanted to photograph the changing of the leaves. A surprising number were still green but there were also some beautuifl reds and golds on display.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: british wildlife, nature, nottingham, park, photo post, squirrel, trees, walk, wildlife, woodthorpe grange park
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Squirrels
We’ve had a couple of squirrel visitors in our garden for several months now. One of them looks perfectly healthy, the other has an injury and at one point all of the fur on his right paw was missing, but now that seems to have grown back. Only the last photo shows the squirrel’s injury clearly, so if you’d rather not see that then simply stop scrolling after photo number five.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: animals, british wildlife, nature, nottingham, photo post, squirrel
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Attenborough Nature Reserve
I recently visited Attenborough Nature Reserve for the first time in years as I was in need of a change of scene. Run by the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust it covers 205 hectares of lakes, wetland, grassland and scrub. There are several walks around the reserve – on this occasion we did the Tufted Duck Nature Trail which took us past some of the lakes as well as through areas of grassland.
Categories: England, Nottinghamshire
Tags: Attenborough Nature Reserve, british wildlife, damselfly, dragonfly, duck, goose, nature, nature reserve, photo post, swan, walk, wildlife
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Garden Fox
We’ve had foxes in our garden before but during lockdown we had a more frequent visitor than usual in the case of this lovely fox with an injured back leg. At first I assumed he (he’s rolled over onto his back so I’m fairly certain it’s a male) had hurt his leg in an accident but doing some research it actually seems likely this has been caused by mange – other symptoms he has are constant scratching, slitted eyes, being out during the day and a noticeable lack of fear around humans. He seems pretty healthy otherwise and is certainly moving about fine (at one point he jumped right over our pond) and I found a charity (Wildlife Aid) where I could buy some mange treatment and add it to some food for him – though keeping very much in mind to be careful he doesn’t become reliant on me/humans as a source of food. I’ll keep you posted about how this works out, but for now some of my favourite shots of our photogenic visitor.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: animal, british wildlife, fox, garden, photo post, wildlife
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