An account by Wildlife Photographer Steve Bates For nearly three years, I’ve been observing a nuthatch nesting site at the Radford Dip Reserve, and it’s been an intriguing journey into understanding their behavior. This season has been the closest I’ve…
Swans sleep both on land and on the water, usually, they tuck their head back under one wing. It’s unusual to see them with their eyes closed (as pictured here). Swans sleep whenever they can, and for how long they…
My earliest memories of Radford Castle are taken from the time when my parents moved in as Tenants and Gatekeeper in 1931 when I was about eighteen months ' old, along with my ten year old half- sister Edna and half-brother Roy aged twelve. Their mother had died at the age of thirty two and my father was a widower when he married my mother.
Are you aware of what has been happening in Hooe Quarry over the past week or so? We have been made aware of recent activity in Hooe Quarry that may be detrimental to the nesting bird population and illegal. It…
Following on from the sad post about the Buzzard and a trip to Plymouth Museum here are the photo’s of the Buzzard that came swooping around us and the garden. The Buzzard stayed around for a good 10-15 minutes just…
Just after the cold spell recently we found a Buzzard hopping around the garden, it did not seem distressed, but allowed us to pick it up and place it in a safe area with food. Sadly a few hours later…
Over the years I have many times come across circles of feathers on the ground, all that remained of an unfortunate bird, more often than not a pigeon. The culprit and the cause of what struggle had been played out…
The early history of Radford is not very well documented. There have been various Roman and Bronze Age references and undoubtedly, because of the location of Radford, it is likely that various settlements would have existed. Easy access to the…
