New life

The warm and dry weather that was predicted stayed away. Instead we had unstable weather with regular showers or rain. Not good for drinking birds at the hide.
Lately a family of Great spotted woodpeckers (Grote bont specht) is hanging around. Both parents and 1 juvenile are seen regulary at the pool and around the hide. The parents are still feeding the youngster. More and more juvenile Great Tits (Koolmees) are visiting too.
Other visitors are still Red Fox (Vos), Red Squirrel (Eekhoorn), Tawny Owl (Bosuil), Blackbird (Merel), Robin (Roodborst), Chaffinch (Vink) and Eurasian Jay (Gaai).
I'm waiting for dry weather and new species...... .

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker

Male feeding the juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker

Update

After a wetter period it's getting warm, sunny and dry. Hopefully this will bring some nice species to the pool.
Lately the main visitors at the pool are Eurasian Jay (Gaai), Wood Pigeon (Houtduif), Great Spotted Woodpecker (GB Specht), Blackbird (Merel), European Robin (Roodborst), adult and juvenile Great Tit (Koolmees) and a new species which is visiting daily now, Carrion Crow (Zwarte Kraai).
The trailcam gave some nice results. Red Fox starts passing by or visiting in daylight, once even at 4 in the afternoon. A Roe Deer (Ree) was passing and 2 nights in a row a Tawny Owl (Bosuil) came over at 22.00 hour to take a bath or drink.

Red Fox

Roe Deer

Tawny Owl

juvenile Great Tit

Goshawk is back !

Good news on the trailcam. After a few months, the juvenile Goshawk came back at the hide this week. This time he's coming over to drink at the pool. It was a long rather dry period. Hope to see him a lot this spring/summer at the hide !
Around the hide, Common Cuckoo (Koekoek), Tree Pipit (Boompieper), Willow Warbler (Fitis) and Common Chiffchaff (Tjiftjaf) are singing. Hope to see them at the hide soon.

More quiet

If March was quiet, April was even more quiet.
Birds are not coming to the feeders anymore. It's waiting for dry periods so birds will come to the pool to drink. Many birds are coming back from the south to breed. It's mainly waiting now.
Eurasian Jay (Gaai) is becoming a more regular visitor now, same as Blackbird (Merel) and Song Thrush (Zanglijster). Great Spotted Woodpecker (GB Specht) is also still one of the main visitors.
Also got my first (recorded) visit by a Red Squirrel (Eekhoorn).

March 2014

At the end of February I made a little change to my hide. I replaced the camouflage net in front of the hide by mirror glass. I will have much better better sight now and it will be harder for the birds to notice me. There's only an opening now for my lens.
It's getting more and more quite now at the feeders and hide. Only Blue Tit (Pimpelmees), Great Tit (Koolmees), Chaffinch (Vink), GS Woodpecker (GB Specht), Wood Pigeon (Houtduif) and Eurasian Jay (Gaai) are regular visitors.
I also got my first daylight visit by the Red Fox (Vos) and 2 nightly visits by a Tawny Owl (Bosuil), recorded by trailcam.
From now on it's waiting for Spring.... .

New visitors

February 2014 was already more quiet. Winter was almost over without really having wintertime.
An new visitor seen by the trailcam was a Red fox (Vos) which would visit regulary the next few weeks.
Also Long-Tailed Tit (Staartmees), Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Kleine Bonte Specht) and Common Chaffinch (Vink) were seen and photographed at the hide.

Another beautiful day

On the 27th of January 2014 I had another beautiful morning at the hide. The last couple of weeks I had 3 different Common Buzzards (Buizerd) visiting the prey at the hide. When I was there, a few times one came over but they were always very shy and were hesitating to come over to eat or flew away immediately when they wanted to start to eat. Weren't they hungry enough ?
On this beautiful morning I was waiting in the hide for some winter visitors when one of the 3 Buzzards arrived. This one wasn't shy at all and started eating immediatly. He spend some 45 minutes with me, giving me the opportunity to make some nice shots.