Wildlife Profiles

03/10/2022

Cuisse de canard with homegrown courgette couscous.

16/06/2017

09/05/2017

Our redstarts are back! http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/redstart

29/04/2017

Having tawny owls nesting next to our pond and barn owls in our (ahem) barn, I though this might be of interest . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FEaFgJyfA

Using sensitive sound equipment the team try to find out how an owl can fly so silently compared to other birds. Taken from Super Powered Owls. Subscribe to ...

23/04/2017

The first cuckoo of the year is calling lustily in the local hedgerows! A wonderful harbinger of spring, but possibly not so good for the local meadow pipits. http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/cuckoo

Wonderful! Our first cuckoo has started to call . . . Actually the iconic call is that of the male (the females have a totally different bubbling call that

10/04/2017

The swallows are back! http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/swallow

'One swallow does not a summer make' . . . But it is certainly a start and today (10 April) saw the first of these beautiful migrants swooping over the out

29/10/2016

I've just seen my first big flocks of fieldfares - a sure sign that the weather is turning hard in Scandinavia. For more information about this, one of our largest thrushes, see http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/fieldfares

06/07/2016

You've got just one fortnight left to see Skomer's puffins . . .http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/puffins

24/05/2016

A little known migratory fish, once a Viking delicacy, is currently bedding down in our rivers . . . http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/sea-lamprey

Ask most people about lampreys and the chances are you will be greeted with a blank stare. And even those that do know something about these strange fish a

27/04/2016

A kite - probably a young bird because the nest is very small - is on eggs on our road.. . .