Skip to content
Bepton Ranger logo

Bepton Ranger

Ramblings, photos and thoughts from the village of Bepton, West Sussex – plus Midhurst, The South Downs, Chichester and surrounding areas.

  • Home
  • About us
  • Twitter

Tag: Bullfinch

Bullfinches are stripping my Cherry Tree!

January 18, 2018January 18, 2018 Simon Verrall1 Comment

Male Bullfinch in Cherry Tree

Pair of Bullfinch in Cherry Tree

I’m not complaining – but there will be no blossom on my Cherry Tree this spring!

Bullfinches have a fearsome reputation amongst fruit growers. A pair (and Bullfinches always operate in pairs) can wreck a commercial orchard in just a few days. As gorgeous as they are – some folk consider them to be a pest!

Continue reading “Bullfinches are stripping my Cherry Tree!” →

Male Bullfinch

January 19, 2013December 27, 2017 Simon Verrall1 Comment

Male Bullfinch

Bullfinch in the snow

Poor old Bullfinch freezing cold in the snow… We’ve had a lot of birds coming up to the back of the house during the cold weather. A striking bit of colour in the frost!

Continue reading “Male Bullfinch” →

Search

Bepton Ranger on Twitter

My Tweets

Categories

  • Amphibians
  • Arts and Culture
  • Badgers
  • Bats
  • Bepton
  • Bepton Down
  • Birds
  • Bracklesham Bay
  • Buildings
  • Butterflies and Moths
  • Chichester
  • Coast
  • Cocking
  • Community
  • Deer
  • Events
  • Farming
  • Fish
  • Food and Drink
  • Goodwood
  • Harting
  • Hedgerow
  • Heyshott
  • History
  • Home and Garden
  • Insects and Bugs
  • Lavant
  • Mammals
  • Midhurst
  • Mushrooms and Funghi
  • Nature
  • Paintings and Sculpture
  • Petersfield
  • Petworth
  • Reptiles
  • Singleton
  • Spiders and Creepy-crawlies
  • Sport
  • Technology
  • The Severals
  • The South Downs
  • The South Downs Way
  • Trails and Footpaths
  • Trees
  • Treyford
  • Uncategorized
  • Upperton
  • Weather
  • West Dean
  • Wild Flowers and Plants
  • World War II

April August Badger Beech Bees Bluebells Blue Tit Bullfinch Celandine Church Common Spotted Orchid Cow Cowslips Crossbill Cubs Cuckoo Flower Damsons Dandelion December Didling Early Purple Orchid Fallow Deer February Fireweed Garden Glistening Ink Cap Greater Butterfly Orchid Hare Hobby Horse House Martin House Spider Hummingbird Hawkmoth January July June Long Tailed Tit March May Mist and Fog Mistletoe Muntjac Deer November Oak October Oilseed Rape Old Man's Beard Orange Tip Painted Lady Peacock Peregrine Pheasant Pig Primrose Pyramidal Orchid Raven Red Admiral Red Kite Roe Deer Rose Rosebay Willowherb September Sheep Snow Starlings Sunset Swallow The Devil's Jumps Tomatoes Vineyard Violet Wheat Willow Wood Anemone Wood Pigeon

What’s it about?

Ramblings and random thoughts about the village of Bepton and the surrounding area including Didling, Cocking, Midhurst and the Severals, the nearby South Downs, Chichester and the West Sussex coast. Mostly about nature, the environment, history, heritage, food, wine, events and just about anything else that catches our eye!

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Blog Stats

  • 74,316 hits since 2011
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Bepton Ranger
    • Join 31 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Bepton Ranger
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...