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Nature Notes By
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2 Mawrth 2020 2 March 2020
1 Mehefin 2020 1 June 2020 David Williams

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14 Ionawr 2020 14 January 2020
11 11 Chwefror 2020 11 February 2020
11 February
2 Mawrth 2020 2 March 2020
17 Mawrth 2020 17 March 2020
12 Mai 2020 12 May 2020 f there’s one thing you can’t France in the 18th century as a game
1 Mehefin 2020 1 June 2020 get away from this month it’s bird. As the name suggests it has red legs around. They may even fly if you walk
16 Mehefin 2020 16 June 2020 Christmas. Many people are and also a red beak and around its eyes. towards them fast enough.
enjoying the spirit of the season As you can see from the photograph, it’s Partridges, particularly the young,
and anticipating the big day a very distinctive bird. will supplement their diet of seeds with
Am ragor o wybodaeth neu i gadw bwrdd, cysylltwch â'r coleg ar Iafter much carolling. You may In some ways, it’s quite a lazy bird. insects as they need the protein these
For more information or to book a table, contact the college on be asking, what has this got to do with Flying, on many occasions, is just too give the birds. I have also noticed they
 01970 639700  enquiries@ceredigion.ac.uk nature? Well, that’s when the bird of this much like hard work. It prefers to run if like some leaf material occasionally. Like
month’s column can step forward. a quick escape isn’t needed. They have all birds they also need water so make
Partridges, as seen in The Twelve no road sense at all. If partridges come sure there is always plenty of ice-free
Days of Christmas, are a delightful sight in front of your car, they will rather walk water during the winter for all of our
SELF STORAGE FOR HOME & BUSINESS around our area particularly during the haphazardly rather than fly out of the feathered friends. This is very important.
dark days of winter. Their colourful
As for the popular carol, first
way until a low enough hedge or wall is
plumage giving us something to look at found. They never hurry if they are being published in 1780, the chances of a
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A wide range of storage units to suit your needs My interest in partridges began earlier danger. I have found the easiest way to is very remote to say the least. They are
in the year when a pair decided to visit deal with such a problem is to get out ground birds and even build their nests
From Big Spaces…
my bird feeding area to hoover up the and walk towards the birds. They move on the ground. Obviously scared of
dropped birdseed. They regularly arrived faster when they realise there’s a human heights.
after the smaller birds had visited the
t to Small Spaces... feeders dropping seed onto the floor
which was being enjoyed by robins and

dunnocks too. It was interesting to see

that one would be on lookout while
the other fed before changing roles.
During the late autumn they brought
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spread with up to nine visiting some
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them throughout the winter.
There are two partridges which are
resident in the UK. The grey partridge
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