Pied Flycatcher

As I was walking back from the yurt, on one of the many trips we make to and fro, I spotted a pied flycatcher flitting around the hedgerow. I followed him all the way back over to the barn, where he promptly popped into one of the nesting boxes we have put up, then I spotted the female. Such a sweet little bird and it is eagerly scoffing all of the insect life it can. The hedgerows are buzzing with life. Goldfinches are singing lustily, bees are drinking up all the nectar that they can get, swallows are diving around the place  and it is most assuredly spring!

Spring has sprung

Carmarthenshire has the wonderful advantage of a lot of wildlife, much of it seemingly on our land. Over the last week or so we have seen six female red deer (who seem to have moved in), hedgehog activity, noctule bats, shrews and voles all over the field, bumble bees, toads, frogs and newts are set up nicely in the pond,  celandines and wood anenomes bursting into flower, an enormous array of birds including: linnet, pied fly catchers, house martins, gold finches, red kite, buzzard, willow tits, bullfinches, wild duck, dipper, herons, Canadian geese, chiff chaff, nut hatches, barn owls, tawny owls, pied wagtails, grey wagtails, song thrush, robin, blue tit, great tit, long tailed tit etc!