We have not had many casualties in this year this is because we are just getting known on Anglesey and surrounding areas. But we have met some of the local vets and other people who take in injured wild birds and animals and hope we will be able to do more in the future.

We hacked back 3 young kestrels to the wild. They had been taken from the nest but were discovered and taken to a local vet who passed them on to a local wildlife volunteer who asked us to hack them back They are still coming for a free feed each day it is lovely to see them hovering over the feed area waiting for the food to be put out. They do hunt for themselves but are grateful for an easy meal.

New aviaries have been put up for our resident birds who have all settled in well. Biscuit the ferruginous hawk we rescued last year is now flying free each night He does not go far and is much happier to be handled now

We have become part of the Anglesey Red Squirrel release project. They have asked us to have some of their breeding squirrels in our garden and to swoop some of our squirrels who are ready for release. We have put up 2

enclosures already and are adapting 2 more which where put up for the project. The enclosures are all link up by runs which go around a half acre area.

We lost our breeding male during the move he was quite old and it was to much for him but we have a nice new male who has settled in well and has mated with our dominate female they have produced one baby so far but they could have another litter later this year

The release site is just up the road from us and so the squirrels will not have far to travel.

It is good to hear back from people who have had success with the boxes We heard from one lady who had little owls in the box 2 weeks after putting it up We also have heard from John Hughes who sent us the photo above of a tawny owl chick that was successfully raised in one of our barn owl boxes that he put up.

We are sure that a lot of you would have watch “ Britain goes wild with Bill Oddie” where they showed our small barn owl box which was being used by a single Barn owl

Local Council are beginning to see the benefit of helping the local wildlife by spending a small amount of their money on putting up boxes. Nottingham has put up 50 bat boxes, Kent has put up an number of different boxes including Barn, Tawny and Bat as well as the London borough of Brent who have put up tawny, bat and bird boxes in their local cemeteries. These all show that a small amount of money can go a long way when helping local wildlife

We have been able to re-home 2 male peacocks who have been named “Pea” and “Nut” and they now roam freely around our land and when they feel like it our neighbours land too luckily no-one is close enough to mind about the noise they make during breeding season.