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New Hens

Our chicken Lwcus (lucky in Welsh) had had a bit of a lonely time recently - after 'losing' her friends 9one to a fox and the other to old age), she's been on her own for a couple of months as we couldn't locate any ex-battery chickens locally. She was spending a lot of time with us in the garden but we have now managed to find her some friends - a Speckeldy and a Bluebell. They have both settled ...[More]

Spring is Here!! At last...

At last it's getting warmer and the birds are visiting us. Today we had redpolls eating nyger seeds and arguing with the goldfinches and siskins as to who needs the most. We hadn't seen Repolls in the garden before and it took a bit of detective work with the bird books to identify them - we've also had linnets and they are pretty similar until you get your eye in!! We also had a Redstart hit our ...[More]