Wear the Fox Hat!

Well that’s what I thought I heard her say when I said I was just going to take some photos in the countryside the other day.
Anyway after much fruitless searching  among my vast collection of baseball caps, flat caps, trilby hats and several woolly head warmers I found that I didn’t actually have any fur hats at all.  I will have to ask exactly what it was I heard shouted out at me as I left by the back door now.
In terms of wildlife that has been encountered in this little corner of Chichester over the past 10 months range from birds, cats, dogs and foxes.  OK dogs and cats don’t count as wildlife but they are animals all the same. 
There has been an extensive list of bird visitors that I have compiled many of which I have never seen before which is mainly due to my having lived in cities most of my life I suppose.
We have seen so far:-
Dozens of Blue Tits, Long Tailed Tits, Black Headed Tits of both sexes, Greater Tits, a Chaffinch plus some Robins including one with a twitch of sorts and numerous Sparrows and Dunnocks.  There have also been some Crows, Magpies, Wood Pigeons, Collard Doves and a lone Wren!  But best of all and a very first for us ever anywhere ....  a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers who are now regular visitors to the feeding area that looks a bit like an assault course for birds.  We also suspect that we have seen a sole Redwing and also a Blackcap.... this is an ever growing interest now and I feel a new set of binoculars are a must for 2010!

We have become bird obsessed with us grabbing binoculars mid washing up and even my old shooting spotting  scope which is a little bit cumbersome.  It’s just fascinating watching the way the birds seem to come in groups and follow regular feeding times.

Here are just two examples:

Then, surprise surprise,  I had a call from a TV wildlife production company that makes nature programmes for BBC “The One Show” asking about my entry to the “mystery garden visitors” request.  Stardom may be forthcoming but if its me or the foxes we will have to wait and see.
Now, where the fox hat she said, I just cant seem to find it right now?