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February wildlife in our Shropshire garden - and further afield!

 

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So the snow continued, but as I wasn't here for some of the month I was fortunate enough to miss it.  Not so our garden birds and in spite of a neighbour kindly filling the feeders for us from time to time, it was obvious when we returned that our 'usual' birds had moved elsewhere, and it took a couple of weeks for them to return to us.  Hopefully they were able to get food in other gardens during the very cold spells.

Our return to the UK was met with yet more snow and very cold temperatures (rather a shock after the warmth of West Africa!) and although the end of the month showed some improvement in temperatures there was a bitter wind at times.  The only signs of the arrival of spring were the snowdrops now well in flower and a very hungry squirrel which emerged from the drey in the copse to attack the peanut feeders. 

In view of my absence from the garden last month, I have decided to add some pictures of a few exotic birds photographed in hotel gardens in the West African country of The Gambia.  Although we are known as a nation of bird lovers, we are not alone in our passion.  Many hotels in this amazing country either feed the birds or plant gardens to encourage them  The following species were all common and very easy to see.  Back to normal next month!

 

Over time we hope to monitor as much of the wildlife here as we can. New records will be added to this site as we identify what's here in the garden.  To see what we have seen so far, click here.

Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu

Beautiful Sunbird

Pied Kingfisher

Village Weavers

Yellow-crowned Gonolek

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Red-billed Hornbill

 © Text and photographs Jenny Steel 2010