Drummuir Walled Garden: August 2013

Saturday 31 August 2013

A Day In The Life... Of Tom and Barbara!

We set up our new surveillance camera in the hen pen last night to try and catch footage of the fox that's been terrorising our birds. No luck with that but Tom and Barbara gave us a little giggle with their interest in the camera and all of their posing and their curiosity about the camera.

The camera works with a motion sensor so when ever the birds moved it went off, so we actually got no footage at night but this morning there was a lot of footage to go through... All of Tom and Barbara of course.

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Peacock, Peahen and now Peachicks!

Last night We're glad to announce the arrival of six new additions to the Walled Garden family!

Now it may not be quite as important and royal as Kate and Wills new baby but Betty and Barney, our Peahen and Peacock of course, hatched out six beautiful little chicks last night. All are healthy and vibrant and will now be kept in the peacock box until their big and strong enough to avoid being eaten by certain intruders. (foxes, buzzards ect.)

Last year Betty hatched out five chicks and sadly all were taken by the local foxes. This year though we plan to take extra precautions and make sure all are kept safe and sound!