Wildlife Gallery - Birds
The Tit FamilyBlue Tits, Coal Tits and Great tits are our most common members of the family and you'll see them all but the Long Tailed Tits usually only arrive (in a gang like biker hoodlums) in the winter months.
FinchesClockwise: Goldfinch; Chaffinch; Greenfinch; Bullfinch.
Chaffinches are amongst the commonest small birds here - you'll need to be patient to see the others but the bird table attracts them in winter.
Great Spotted WoodpeckerWith it's distinctive drrrrrr drilling sound, you're likely to hear this bird before you see it. This is a juvenile and it'll lose its red forehead as it matures. Mature males have a red patch on the back of the head, females no red on the head.
SparrowhawkThis bird isn't always the most welcome visitor because she'll kill any small bird she can catch but sparrowhawks are making their numbers up after long years of local extinction due to persecution and well, she has babies to feed too.
HeronHerons are regular visitors to the pond behind your cabin, especially in the spring when tadpoles are abundant.
Common BuzzardWe've had a pair rearing chicks here every year for a decade or more so you'll have to be unlucky not to see these guys fairly close up either in the air, dropping gout of a tree as you approach or even hunting over the moor for rabbits.
Tawny OwlYou'll do well to see this bird during the day but they can occasionally be seen in daytime roosting in the branches of a pine or fir tree close to the trunk but they're very well camouflaged and hard to spot. You'll certainly hear one at night.
Yellow HammerYellowhammerYou'll occasionally see these really brilliant flashes of yellow by the roadside because they like hedges and close cover. A regular visitor to the bird table in winter.
PheasantYou'll probably see this character, he's quite tame but quite rightly nervous about dogs. However, there are usually plenty of other wild ones around in the wood.
