Birds & Birds of Prey in the Loire Valley
Not forgetting our friends the red squirrels!!
As Les Fleurs, self catering cottages in the Loire, is
surrounded by vineyards, sunflowers, trees and fields we
have other visitors to our garden and grounds that don’t
have to book!!
Here we have listed just a few that can be seen and heard.
We
have been enjoying watching the antics of a family of red
squirrels for a couple of years. One or more visit the
gardens regularly and scamper over any low roof. During the
winter they dine in style ‘A la Les Fleurs’ on a variety of
nuts we put out for the birds.
Lapwings are to be seen in the
fields and vineyards that surround us.
A pair of Hoopoes have been
nesting very close to our garden as they are frequent
visitors often perching on top of our bread oven making
their very distinctive cry.
When Jon was replacing the roof
over the bread oven, a pair of wrens that were nesting, we
think, in our wood pile, became very angry with him.
Fieldfare
Robins are frequent visitors.
Hummingbird moths are regular
visitors to our lavender garden and guests have taken some
marvellous photographs which they have happily shared with
us, sadly our computer was visited by a less friendly bug
and we lost everything we had been sent.
The cuckoo can be heard all day
long with its haunting cry…
The male blackbird is very
territorial.
The female is much less
distinctive.
A pair of wood peckers have
visited us for a number of years and their ‘pecking’ can be
heard quite clearly.
Tits and thrushes are just a few more of our winged visitors!!
Not forgetting Birds of Prey
Common Buzzard
Kestrel
Screech Owl
Now with heated Pool !!
As seen on BBC television
www.lesfleurs-loire.com
last updated 1st September 2009
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