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Image Taken on 09 Mar 2025
at 12:20 Image of day on 13 Apr 2025
On the west bank of Duck Pond we are still enjoying these colourful Crocuses.
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Image Taken on 25 Feb 2019
at 12:39 Image of day on 14 Mar 2019
A Pair of obviously cultivated Crocuses look up at us - or more likely the
sunshine. They 'close' at night - this is as open as they get.
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Image Taken on 17 Oct 2014
at 12:28 Image of day on 20 Dec 2014
In the distance we saw a large dark bird getting the mobbing
treatment from about a dozen Rooks, but we were unable to decide
what the target bird was and assumed that this would remain one
of life's many 'don't knows'. But the bird slowly flew in our
general direction, and finally over an adjacent arable field and
between us and the black poplars about 100m away. Well this
turned out to be our first ever identification of a Raven.
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Image Taken on 21 Jun 2006
at 13:35 Image of day on 25 Jun 2006
On 26 Aug 1997 the duck-shaped pond developed a red algal bloom
overnight that lasted a few days. This year the same has happened
to the main pond next to the house. The moorhen continue to feed
their 7 youngsters without any apparent ill-effects. The trails
across the water are formed through the normal surface weed by the
moorhen adults.
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Image Taken on 30 Dec 2016
at 09:43 Image of day on 08 Feb 2017
A small group of Redpolls were feeding on the frosty Great Willowherb seed heads
outside the living room window. Our record show our only previous sighting was
in April 2013. This first bird shows the characteristic pink breast.
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Image Taken on 30 Dec 2016
at 09:42 Image of day on 08 Feb 2017
This Redpoll has no obvious Red Breast. Redpolls come in several varieties:
Common, Greater, Lesser, Arctic and Mealy (some of which may be different names
for the same variant) and not usefully differentiated in our ID books, so just
'Redpoll' will have to do.
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Image Taken on 09 Feb 2021
at 11:17 Image of day on 10 Mar 2021
A Redpoll feeds for several minutes on the seeds from last years
Great Willowherb flowers outside the Living Room window.
A search of our archives shows that we see one or more Redpolls every few
years. We have always ID's the bird as a Redpoll, but our more recent
bird ID books (i.e. published in the 21st century!) show an additional species - the
Lesser Redpoll - which we think that this, and our earlier photos, probably is.
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Image Taken on 17 Jun 2023
at 04:45 Image of day on 14 Aug 2023
After midnight on the same night we see the female Roe Deer for 10 minutes.
The final shot looks amazingly similar to the start of the sequence above - while building
the montage we initially thought we had made a mistake - but it is a genuine second moment.
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Image Taken on 10 May 2019
at 12:26 Image of day on 16 Jun 2019
The Rooks breeding is already well advanced, and they are
collecting live food for the youngsters high in the trees above us.
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Image Taken on 17 Mar 2020
at 01:53 Image of day on 06 Apr 2020
The new log at the ditch generated an unusually high number of pics over this one night.
It turns out to be a Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) (or perhaps more than one) scampering about on the log.
Here accurately montaged are 6 moments from the visits.
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Image Taken on 07 Apr 2020
at 05:35 Image of day on 21 Apr 2020
This male Roe Deer with impressive antlers stops by the edge of Round Pond for a drink.
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Image Taken on 05 Dec 2013
at 10:34 Image of day on 25 Jan 2014
We first saw (and bought) a Romanesco Cauliflower in our local
Tesco a few years ago, and haven't seen once since until one
appeared on the Ocado supermarket site. They taste a little
different to the standard varieties, but the Fractal pattern is
so attractive we can't resist buying one!
Wikipedia tells us the fractal dimension is about 2.8 - look it
up if interested.
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Image Taken on 20 Jan 2022
at 10:10 Image of day on 20 Feb 2022
A short savage storm late last year that brought down or broke several of our
trees, impacted much of the local area - damaged hedges and trees can be found
within a mile or two. Rooks normally see about half of one years nests survive
for refurbishment come the Spring, but the 50 or so nests in the large Rookery
to our west were completely stripped of nests in the storm. Hence unusually we
see the trees all with freshly constructed nests. This is one of the 3 main
nesting trees.
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Image Taken on 10 Apr 2024
at 08:21 Image of day on 03 May 2024
Here a couple of days later we discovered the hole with what looks like Badger bedding
dragged out of the hole, but little more activity recorded on the trail cam.
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Image Taken on 29 Mar 2020
at 16:04 Image of day on 10 Apr 2020
Come day-time, the sun sweeps around the Round pond, the shadow of the tree on which
this camera is mounted swings around with it.
Not quite the timed sequence it looks like, but you get the idea.
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Image Taken on 25 May 2024
at 12:55 Image of day on 20 Jun 2024
On a near windless lunchtime we see this close to perfect reflection
in the water of the Round pond.
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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2024
at 13:39 Image of day on 28 Feb 2024
The clarity of leaf detail is a little reminiscent of prints by the master of illusion M C Escher,
but without the magical ambiguity.
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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2024
at 13:39 Image of day on 28 Feb 2024
The clarity of leaf detail is a little reminiscent of prints by the master of illusion M C Escher,
but without the magical ambiguity.
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Image of day on 21 Dec 2005
The Round pond and its surroundings now bare of most leaves. The
buddleia on the left of the island and others around the plot have
not dropped their leaves despite some hard frosts - the brown
seed-heads have been left for the birds. Interesting to compare
with the image for 22 Sep 2005 in full leaf (still in the archive
for a few weeks).
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Image of day on 22 Sep 2005
This overgrown vista is 'Round pond' now sadly
depleted of water and will soon become 'round bog' unless
we get in and clear it somewhat over the winter.
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