A few years ago we rented a large dilapidated house in a semi-rural part of Hampshire. The house was surrounded by fields and woods, and we shared the land with a wonderful variety of wildlife.
In this post I’m sharing a few of my favourite photos from the ten or so years we lived there. The theme for this post is birds.
![A Cock Pheasant standing on a wooden plank](https://51af17.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7029_3-1024x683.jpg)
![A Great Spotted Woodpecker feeding its adolescent young. They are standing on the slanted roof of a wooden bird table.](https://51af17.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_8834_2-1024x683.jpg)
![A Goldfinch standing on a piece of curved wrought iron.](https://51af17.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FullSizeRender-1024x683.jpg)
![A Robin standing on an old metal fence](https://51af17.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_1798-1024x683.jpg)
![A Crow strutting through the snow](https://51af17.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2061-1024x683.jpg)
![A Buzzard sitting on top of a tree, surrounded by cones](https://51af17.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_0116-1024x671.jpg)
![A Green Woodpecker hunting on short grass](https://51af17.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Green-woodpecker-1024x683.jpg)
![The head and neck of a peacock. The peacock is looking intently at the camera.](https://51af17.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Peacock-glaring-1-1024x683.jpg)