When to Watch Wildlife

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• Solsbury Hill, Bath09/01/2025
  A walk around Solsbury Hill on wonderfully sunny and fresh day today, with snow and frost lying in the shadows and on the higher ground. The wildlife highlights were a drumming great spotted woodpecker, a muntjac deer, winter thrushes, and a fox, lit up in the sunshine. It seems quite early in the year for a woodpecker, but in the […]
• Bitter northerly winds06/01/2025
  Another trip to the wonderful Somerset Levels – this time RSPB’s Greylake NR and then Ham Wall NNR. I dipped out on the Baikal Teal and Merlin, but enjoyed seeing snipe and the expected wintering ducks. The hide at Grey Lake feels like it must be the coldest place in Somerset, especially when the wind is up, as it was […]
• Winter gloom05/01/2025
  A visit to Langford Lakes NR in Wiltshire today yielded a great white egret, kingfisher, snipe, tufted duck and gadwall – plus an unidentified wader heard, possibly a sandpiper. The kingfisher was very close to the hide so was scared off by my movement when I popped my head up, unfortunately, so what else is there to do in the […]

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