James Macgregor

Bespoke fine furniture designer and maker. Design and make furniture to last from beautiful local hardwood. Based in the beautiful Lake District in Cumbria.

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

Delivery day for this small oak desk tomorrow. I think that the customer will be happy!

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@Welshsquirrels Is the chirp heard twice near the end of this video a red squirrel alarm call?

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

Short-eared owl in the Lake District. Just after this photo was taken it flew over to dive bomb us and shout at us. We were clearly getting too close to it's young. So we left it alone! @cumbriawildlife @Natures_Voice

[Red Squirrel South-West @redsquirrelsw]

Goooood morning and happy Friday! Let's revisit this great news from this week :D
#redsquirrels #redsrule #redsquirrelsrule #redsquirrelsouthwest #saveoursquirrels #redsquirrel #pinemartens #pinemarten
https://t.co/2Jr3NyUKEK

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@Welshsquirrels We are thinking of putting a rope bridge in our garden to give the squirrels a high level route around to prevent them from having to run the gauntlet of the local cats. Do you know how thick the rope needs to be?

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

'@brsquirrel We are thinking about putting up a rope bridge in our garden to give the squirrels a safe route through our garden without running the gauntlet of the local cats. Do you have any experience of what thickness of rope is needed?

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

Short Eared Owl in the Lake District yesterday. What a gorgeous bird!

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

I know that we have at least two different squirrel which come to our feeder in our garden. Here is the really handsome black back and white tip of tail feeding this morning (needs a snappier name!). @cumbriawildlife @brsquirrel

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@StevenFalk1 @wurflenii We are very rural and about 200m altitude. Does that class as upland? Thanks.

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

Monster bumblebee in some lovely Foxgloves (wait for it!) in our garden yesterday. How do they fly? It really doesn't look possible.

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@Welshsquirrels I have just read your excellent book - Red Squirrels in my garden. I live in North Cumbria and have started having a daily visit from a red. I had lots of questions about reds - which were all answered by your book. Thanks!

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@bjbrightwell @RedSquirrelsNE @brsquirrel @cumbriawildlife We are lucky enough to see this one in our back garden almost daily.

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@brsquirrel @cumbriawildlife @RedSquirrelsNE A very damp looking squirrel having breakfast this morning

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

Cheeky woodpecker trying to help itself to squirrel treats. No chance!

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@brsquirrel Managed to get a short video of the red squirrel which comes to our garden daily. It normally comes in the morning. So I was very surprised to see it at 19:30 last night! Managed to get my camera trap in place without disturbing it.

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@B_Strawbridge Never been a fan of flies. But as they go, this one is interesting. Still not sure I would call it pretty!

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

Our garden is buzzing with bees and bumblebees at the moment. We have an alder buckthorn tree which is in flower and covered in worker bumblebees and wasps. Is this an Early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum) worker? @B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1 #bumblebee #bees

[Red Squirrel South-West @redsquirrelsw]

Some more great images and news about the red #kits at #ThirlmereReservoir in the #LakeDistrict...
#REWILDING
#redsquirrels #redsquirrel #redsrule #redsquirrelsrule #redsquirrelsouthwest #saveoursquirrels
https://t.co/dWcn0gBfiR

[James Macgregor @hilltopfurn]

@laurenlaverne Hi Lauren, normally I make fine furniture but because I can't meet with customers, get wood from suppliers or do deliveries I am building a new kitchen for our house! Here is a picture of one of the units being glued up.