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What species of birds are in your garden?

What species of birds are in your garden?

The 6th annual national survey of garden birds is about to begin. The survey encourages residents to spend an hour, sometime between June 30th and July 8th 2012 recording the highest number of birds seen or heard at one time. It is important that the recording is done in this manner so that individual birds […]

Wally Richards: attracting Tui to your garden

Wally Richards: attracting Tui to your garden

If you would love Tui to regularly visit your garden, try Wally’s method to attract them.

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Mother thrush and her wee babies – Tim Durrant

Sometime between Christmas and New Year a tree blew down in our front garden exposing a mother thrush incubating her eggs. I decided to take some careful zoom photos of her over several days until the eggs hatched. Here are the results. I will take some more as they get a bit older.