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Unlikely Kinship: Deer and Fox Spotted in Shared Moment

A young deer and a fox were seen playing in a UK garden. This unusual interaction was filmed on May 8, 2025, and shows animals being curious beyond their own species.

#DeerAndFox, #AnimalPlay, #UKWildlife, #Interspecies, #GardenWildlife

https://newsletter.tf/deer-and-fox-play-together-uk-garden/

Young deer and fox play together in UK garden on May 8, 2025

A young deer and a fox were seen playing in a UK garden. This unusual interaction was filmed on May 8, 2025, and shows animals being curious beyond their own species.

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NewsletterTF2d ago

A young deer and a fox were spotted playing together in a garden. This is a rare sight, showing animals can be curious about other species.

#DeerAndFox, #AnimalPlay, #UKWildlife, #Interspecies, #GardenWildlife
https://newsletter.tf/deer-and-fox-play-together-uk-garden/

Young deer and fox play together in UK garden on May 8, 2025

A young deer and a fox were seen playing in a UK garden. This unusual interaction was filmed on May 8, 2025, and shows animals being curious beyond their own species.

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Karine van der WerfApr 1
Testing my new lens… and apparently word got out 😀
This little blue tit showed up right outside my living room, struck a pose, and gave me THAT look - like “Is this my good side?”
I’ll take that as a successful first test.
📷Nikon Z7II 100-400mm
#wildlife #birdphotography #bluetit #natureathome #newgear #justshowedup #gardenwildlife
The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the NewsMar 20

Hummingbird migration 2026: when they’ll reach your garden and how to get ready

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/03/hummingbird-migration-2026-when-theyll-reach-your-garden-and-how-to-get-ready/

Margaret J. LowMar 20

Blue Tit versus Bee. A Blue Tit exploring our nesting box had an unpleasant surprise and made an emergency exit when they encountered a large bee that has taken up residence.

#Spring2026 #GardenWildlife #BirdsOfMastodon #SpringWatch #BlueTit #Birds

Artists GardenMar 10

We also have rabbits again. So far, relatively well behaved, sticking to the grass for culinary needs. Apart, that is, from one of the daylilies, which looks rather sorry for itself. And the primrose, which one of them ‘deadheaded’ whilst I was watching.

#rabbits #wildlife #GardenWildlife #WildlifePhotography #ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #natural #NaturalGarden #WildlifeFriendly

elbowcrookerMar 9
It must be Spring! We have some froggy action in the garden pond....
#gardening #wildlife #gardenwildlife #frogs #amphibians #gardenpond #spring #urbanwildlife
Artists GardenMar 8

First sighting of a pair of ducks this year.
I had seen the male and the female earlier but today is the first time that I saw them together. I approached carefully to say 'hello' and supply a little more breakfast, expecting them to be shy initially. They weren't - both were supremely relaxed with me and confident.
They are also used to me pointing the camera at them.
We know each other well from previous years.

#ducks #mallard #MallardDucks #wildlife #GardenWildlife #WildlifePhotography #ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #spring #natural #NaturalGarden

elbowcrookerFeb 24

A very small squirrel contemplates ascending a very large evergreen oak, Quercus lucombeana. Sheffield Botanical Gardens. Photo taken earlier today, 24th February 2026.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #squirrels #wildlife #trees #oaktree #botanicalgardens #Sheffield #nature #garden #gardenwildlife

Maikel de BakkerJan 10
The garden falls silent.

A few weeks ago, a Sparrowhawk turned our garden upside down in a storm of panic and wings. Yesterday, he returned. This time, there was no chaos — only anticipation. Every bird seemed to know what was coming. Long before I noticed him, the garden emptied itself. Not in panic, but with experience.

Only two House Sparrows (Passer domesticus — Huismus — House Sparrow) made a mistake. They chose low cover beneath the bird feeder house. When the Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus — Sperwer — Eurasian Sparrowhawk) landed on top of it, right above them, they froze. Perfectly still. Camouflage doing what evolution designed it to do.

The garden was silent. Too silent.

The sparrowhawk scanned the area, clearly disappointed. Then the two sparrows shifted… and briefly quarrelled. A fatal error. In a flash of muscle and feathers, the hawk launched himself downward. The sparrows reacted instantly — nimble, desperate, alive. They fled with the hawk right on their tail, vanishing beyond the garden.

I don’t know how it ended. That’s nature.

Predators like the Sparrowhawk don’t hunt for sport. They take what they need, removing weakness and maintaining balance. Without them, ecosystems collapse quietly and invisibly. Watching this unfold from my lunch table was a reminder that even the smallest garden is part of a much larger system.

Photographed handheld with my Canon 5D Mark IV and Sigma 100–400mm at f/6.3, 1/250 sec, ISO 3200 — overcast, calm, and deceptively peaceful.

Nature rarely announces itself loudly. Sometimes, it simply holds its breath.

#AccipiterNisus #Sperwer #EurasianSparrowhawk
#PasserDomesticus #Huismus #HouseSparrow
#BirdPhotography #GardenWildlife #UrbanNature
#NatureObservation #EcologicalBalance #Predation
#WildlifeBehavior #BirdsInTheGarden #NatureStory
#HandheldPhotography #Canon5DMarkIV #Sigma100400
#WinterWildlife #OvercastDays #NaturalSelection
#FoodChain #Ecosystem #BackyardNature
#PixelfedPhotography #WildlifeMoments