Tehidy's Wildlife

I spent some time at Tehidy country park with my wife heather today and we were surprised to note that one of the resident female Squirrels was either pregnant or suckling a litter,  I believe that Squirrels normally raise their two litters from January to February and again during June to July following a six week gestation period so we wondered if the abundance of food hand-outs from visitors was spurring the females to produce a third litter ??

              

                 

The resident Male Swan was still busy strutting his stuff as was the case on our last visit, This with a view to dominating any possible contenders to his territory while by contrast the females were taking a leisurely bath and using their own heads as a substitute loofah

All the bird life at Tehidy is far more approachable than normal with birds such as Jay and Chaffinch being far easier to work with and the likes of Great Tits, Robins and indeed Crows will take offerings straight from your hand