Villager Jim's Garden Wildlife
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Villager Jim's Garden Wildlife - Villager Jim
Introduction
Taking photographs of the creatures in my garden is one of the most intimate aspects of being a wildlife photographer. We are lucky to have a fairly large garden, extending to about an acre. It is bordered by many coniferous trees, which act as great staging posts for garden birds to travel from one to another safely, away from the beady eyes of birds of prey. A substantial pond in one corner is home to perhaps fifty large goldfish and koi carp.
Our house is one of the last in the village before it merges with the spectacular Peak District countryside. We have our own field where our horses live, which adjoins a small woodland copse. After that it is farmer’s field after farmer’s field, so as well as enjoying the company of the many birds that are common to everyone’s garden, we have barn owls, tawny owls, buzzards and sparrowhawks paying us the occasional visit. There are also pied wagtails, woodpeckers, wrens, swallows … and countless others. We have an abundance of moles, shrews, mice and other little furries such as rabbits and hares, and even the odd stoat and weasel. The more formal areas of the garden are the domain of my wife, who is constantly battling the munching of her tender plants by baby rabbits. (She never takes any measures to exclude them, of course, as I love them being