Baby Kestrels 2026

 This years baby Kestrels nearly ready to leave the nest

Musée automobile de l’Aunis (6.3Km)

 Musée automobile de l’Aunis,

A great collection of 126 cars, 36 different makes dating from 1903 to 1994 

Fouras 29 km

 Center Beach Fouras

Deer visiting our garden at the Gites

 

Deer brazenly walking around our garden outside the back door

Kestrels in the barn

 Remember the Baby Kestrels in the barn?

They grew up quite fast

And have now flown away to make there own lives away from the nest.

Surgeres (13km)

 

Surgeres 

The closest small town to our gites, Ideal for a shopping and nice for strolling around in the center.

Busy springtime for the birds this year

 Every year Birds nest and have chicks in our old buildings and barns, this year we have our usual sparrows and house martins but missing are the little owls but instead for the first time we have Kestrels! One of our guests has kindly sent me some photo's of when they were very small and he managed to catch the mother in the nest too.

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Local food

 

Chàtelaillion-Plage (18km)

 Planche Apero watching the sun go down on Chàtelaillion-Plage

Farmhouse

 

The spacious 2 bedroom Farmhouse, ideal for families who need lots of living room.