Bristol Harbour Wildlife

03/07/2024

Some new recruits to the harbour 🤗💚



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28/06/2024

🖤Ｔｈｅ Ｃａｎａｄｉａｎ ｇｏｏｓｅ🖤
These lil nuggets are such smart creatures with exceptional memories, they'll remember animals, people and situations they’ve experienced for life.
Migratory birds capable of flying 3,000 miles of up to 70mph, if one gets sick or wounded, several other (if not all) geese will drop out of flight formation to protect it until it's strong enough to re join, or pass.
They mate for life and grieve the loss of family members aswell as unhatched eggs. Such a beautiful species of bird we've got on our doorstep 🙌🫶

22/05/2024

Bruce the goose being a total stunner 🌱🌊💚

14/05/2024

Walking into social media like he owns it 👑💯

13/05/2024

🐣 Nine little floofs ready to take on the world

Swans have the biggest eggs of all flight birds and possibly make the cutest of babies! They sleep on water overnight as do their cygnets who'll climb on mums back and spend all night under her wings. These cygnets will take around 4 months to fledge, they grow up super quick so it's lovely to see them under a week old 💚

Like many other creatures, swans recognise people/ faces, when they're happy to see you they'll raise their necks and snort. You may even see an impressive wing stretch 🥰🦢💯

Sidenote, never feed bread to birds- if you can't get your hands on bird food then a bland cereal with minimal sugar would be a good substitute

27/04/2024

🙌 Bristols favourite goose, Bruce chowing down on brekkie. What an absolute doll she is 🌞 Happy Saturday!

26/04/2024

City Nature Challenge are aiming to record as much wildlife as possible globally, across 4 days, from April 26th – April 29th 2024

A quick download of iNaturalist app you can start snapping your nearby plants and animals and join in! The app in general is a great way to find out what other life lives in your area, with over 5,000 users in Bristol alone, you can view as closely as whats on your own road! 🙌💚🐸🌱🦔🦇🌲🦢🐞🌿🦅🦊🌳🦕🐿🌻🦡🌾🐇⚘☘💚

City Nature Challenge is an epic global mission to record as much wildlife as possible, across 4 days, from April 26th – April 29th 2024. Join us in the West of England as we join forces to collect more records of biodiversity across our region, at the same time as 450+ other city regions across t...

24/04/2024

💚 ᏕᎮᏒᎥᏁᎶ!! 🐣🌻🌱

Finally have our first clutch of 2024 harbour babies! 10 lil fluffers from Swedish Blue momma going for their first big swim 🥰

13/09/2023

Hello feather fam! Does any of our followers happen to have (or know anyone with) a chicken?

We have a baby bird that is looking for a broody hen to sit under for a month or so in exchange for payment and lots of thanks

Please do share this with anyone you think might be able to help. Happy to travel out of Bristol. Thanks all 💚🐣🐓

25/12/2022

Happy Christmas to Bristol's feathered followers, from all the wildlife here on the harbour 💚 Our gal Bruce walked on water this year so who knows what 2023 has in store 😜🦆🐣🦢🦇🕊🦦🐦🐟🐀🐝🐠🍂 Bristol, United Kingdom

01/01/2022

Happy New Year feathery friends. Hope head's aren't too sore 😉💚🦆🦢🐣🥂

02/09/2021

𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤!!!!! I've had sooo many messages about this goosey over the summer. She's OK and floating back around town sassy as ever. Every spring female birds will commonly disappear for a few months while they're sitting on their eggs somewhere safe, whether fertilised or not.
So lovely that she's back (even though 5am wake up calls resume😄) She's had lots of treats and love today 🥰💚🪶

27/07/2021

Statement cloud doing it's thang' over the harbour this eve 💨

25/07/2021

Smush 😍

19/07/2021

Mama Swan (officially called a pen) has picked her usual spot to nest. It's about a month later than average but hopefully she'll be successful and we'll have some signets this year on the harbour 🦢💓

06/06/2021

The rescue duckling from 2019 Netty (named after the net she was entangled in🙃), has had her first batch of babies! Eight lovely little Swedish blues, she's just as loud as her mother Gabby too, as you can hear. Swedish blue ducks are known for having very loud quacks and being very protective mothers 🥰🐥🦆