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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

#Birdwatching in India is amazing! We’re seeing some sights too

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The weather this week has been a little rough & it’s delayed releasing some of our patients. Here's a throwback to some woodpigeons we hand-reared & released on site a few weeks ago. They were more than ready to go! Hopefully the weather will improve soon so we can do some more releases!❤️🪶

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A day of brilliant lifers for us. Platier d’Oye reserve just outside Calais was bone dry with little about, but gave us Icterine Warbler & Natterjack Toad. Belgian reserve, Ploegsteert, near Lille gave us Little Bittern, Short-toed Treecreeper & a Goshawk. Happy birders 🪶😊

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Think we nailed the ID of this one at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve today😁 Northern Wheatear @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social #birds #birding 🪶

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Birdwatching in the Causses & Cévennes National Park, France in the hope of seeing vultures. First we saw was a Lammergeier! Loads of Griffon and Black vultures in the Gorge de la Jonte. Plenty of Red Billed Choughs & Alpine Swifts. Excellent heatwave-escape birding at altitude #birds

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Both baby wrens feeding and pooing beautifully this morning. They’re on their way to @follywildlife.bsky.social where the volunteers work in shifts to keep all the baby #birds fed dawn to dusk. 😊

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I’m 1 of @follywildlife.bsky.social ‘s most experienced baby #bird feeders. Tonight I have 2 cute wrens in my care that were found outside a local pub with a 3rd who’d sadly died. They’re being fed every 30 mins until sunset. I’ll be up at dawn to carry on the feeds until I can get them to Folly

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Two buff-tips before we even opened up the moth trap. First record for our garden. The day has started well!! 💕 #moths @savebutterflies.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social #30dayswild @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Privet alive with Meadow Browns at #ElmleyNNR There must have been thousands across the reserve today! @KentWildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #butterflies

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We’ve had a month of big raptors White Tailed Eagles and Golden Eagles on Mull, Bald Eagles in Pennsylvania and then a WTE pitches up on our home patch in Kent 💕 #addBird #Birding #ElmleyNNR #UKbirding #USbirding

Golden Eagle flying very in the spring warmth above Mull

Bald Eagle perched on a pylon at John Heinz National Wildlife Reserve near Philadelphia

Distant White Tailed Eagle shimmering in the heat haze at Elmley NNR, Kent

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

First Corn Buntings of the year for us at #ElmleyNNR today. White Tailed Eagle was considerably larger than the usual fence post raptors seen there… even at a distance through heat haze. The Little Owl was downright judgmental 😂 Also loads of Cinnabar and 6 spot burnet moths.

Distant White Tailed Eagle through the heat haze

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Lovely Saturday morning wildlife. Frogs aren’t usually this bold in our pond by day. The Carrion Crows are too good at carting them off. @froglife.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A hedgehog had a good snuffle round our pond looking for snacks last night. The water level is lower than usual due to the weather. It & our wild ‘lawn’ are undoubtedly a welcome feeding area when everything is so dry. @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We’re familiar with watching our gardens spread out in strange positions sunbathing on the lawn, but have never before seen a Treecreeper doing this on a vertical tree trunk. It was a beautiful Cumbrian morning today @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

2/ …Joseph being very cold he made his way to us. He was very cold & weak on arrival. Warmth, fluids & a full check over were given; luckily he had no injuries. He’s been in foster care, is coming on in leaps & bounds & is already quite feisty! We‘ll keep you updated on his journey ❤️

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

1/ Our first badger cub arrived last week. Meet Joseph ❤️ A lady walking her dog found him above ground wickering for mum. She called Brighton Wildlife Rescue who sadly found a dead female not far from the cub & sett. Joseph had obviously gone looking for her. With no sign of more cubs, &…

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A few seconds of Sedge Warbler song at Elmley NNR. The sun has come out and they’re back! 😊 @kentwildlife.bsky.social @kentishplover.bsky.social #birdingkent

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

One swallow doesn’t make a summer… especially with a bitter northeast wind-easterly on Sheppey. However, it does make a fab start to a stay at Elmley NNR @kentwildlife.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is the most spread out frog spawning we’ve had here in Kent. 1st spawn Feb 23rd. After a few days, a week of hard frost, then phase 2 spawning then a 2nd period of frost. This morning tadpoles from phases 1 & 2 and new spawn at the other end of the pond! No toadspawn…yet! @froglife.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Toads seem to spawn about a month after the frogs in our Kent pond. Frog spawning started Feb 23rd. Tonight a toad walked in bang on schedule. I can make out other eyes in the background, but can’t be sure whether they’re frogs or toads. 🐸 💚 @kentwildlife.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We’ve not seen much of the frogs for several nights thanks to frost. Tonight they’re back in business! Some of the earlier spawn froze and has died, but there’s so much that we aren’t particularly concerned. It looks like more is on its way tonight! 💚🐸

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Fab day at Elmley NNR today. Barn Owls out all day! Short Eared Owls very obliging. Hares feeling frisky in the spring sunshine. And a BlackTailed Godwit originally ringed in The Netherlands in May 2024 @kentwildlife.bsky.social #Kent #Sheppey #ElmleyNNR

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Blue Tits started nesting in our camera nest box this morning. Ten days later than last year. Baby bird season at @follywildlife.bsky.social is on its way 💙

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Morning after the night before… they’re still active in daylight

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So many frogs!!! Our West Kent pond is full of action tonight! We only had 1 blob of spawn this morning. I think there may be rather more on its way! Who needs television at this time of year?!😁 🐸 @froglife.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Can’t help get excited when a badger turns up in the garden. It doesn’t happen often, but it explains who ate the peanuts that I knocked out of the feeder I had soaking in disinfectant overnight 😍🦡 @kentwildlife.bsky.social @badgertrust.bsky.social @badgerlandcouk.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We rarely see Foxes using the Badger Hole, they generally just jump the fences with ease, but this fine dog Fox decided it needed further excavation last night 😊 🦊 #foxoftheday

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

First badger for a couple of months… further enlarging the hole badgers dug between us & the neighbour who refused to let us have a hedgehog hole on this fence 😁 🦡 @badgertrust.bsky.social @badgerlandcouk.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Memory from 2021: Returning home from the gym in the dark, my husband saw a hedgehog under a car in our road. He parked, grabbed his gardening gloves and walked out to move it to safety. It turned out to be a woolly hat with a large bobble 😂(Photo taken after it got light)

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.

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Linda G @hhogsfrogs.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Some great birding at Rutland Water NR where GW Egrets are everywhere! Watched a Marsh Harrier try to steal a Buzzard’s meal. Next night some 🤬 tried to steal equipment from Leics & Rutland Wildlife Trust & burnt it when they got stuck in the mud. Pls donate to appeal www.lrwt.org.uk/restore-recl...

One of the many Great White Egrets at Rutland Water NR

Marsh Harrier (top) and Carrion Crow (bottom left) plotting on how to relieve a Buzzard (bottom right) of its dinner. Taken in the very last light of the day so the camera was struggling.

Photo courtesy LRWT. Burnt out equipment post robbery attempt on Thursday evening.

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