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I've noticed that the Starlings have been a bit short tempered recently!

After putting a bit of chicken skin out, a fox with an injury to its forehead snapped it up. Then 10 minutes later, another individual arrived but was scared off by the halloween fireworks!

This is a first for me, lovely bird. I THINK it's a Redwing but stand to be corrected!

It's October and I'm still getting most of the same species visiting the pond as I did in the summer.

Despite the cooler weather now, I'm still getting lots of birds at the pond.

My Heron has made an appearance again.

My resident shrew is getting bolder and drinking at the pond during the day.

I think worms make up a relatively large proportion of their diet when conditions are right.

A couple of years ago I tossed out some over-ripe bananas thinking the birds might peck at them but was surprised to see a large fox scoff them.

With the wetter weather, earthworms are back on the menu for the foxes. They're quite proficient at finding them.

Another wonderful video Nick! Were thoses Chiffchaffs at the start of the video? I have them here too in Northern Germany and they like to play in my birdbath with fountain even more than the other birds do. 😄 Yes, I'm almost certain they are Chiffchaffs. I only started seeing them relatively recen...