Take a walk around our gardens and you will find a few of our other residents :

Purdey, our resident peahen, lives in the branches of our Cedar tree. Purdey Update....she laid 4 clutches of eggs last summer, we have arranged to take her over to Tropiquaria for a few weeks this year so she can spend some time with an Indian Blue Peacock, she seems quite pleased with this idea.

There are loads of Ducks on the pond at the moment, so we expect a healthy amount of ducklings this year!

There is a family of Coots living on the pond, they were born here last year and are now fully grown. I would expect them to expand, as they are territorial they stay here all year round.

On top of these we have wood-pigeons, squirrels, a sparrow-hawk, and for a thankfully short time last summer, a heron - well, the fish were thankful it was only here for a short while!

At the moment we do not have any hens - there is a family of foxes living nearby so we have relocated the girls to an organic chicken coop run by one of our friends.

I will be adding photo's of our resident wildlife as soon as they start co-operating by standing still !