Perhaps because we had such a fine May the small birds seem to have had a prolific breeding season. Most of the young have now fledged and are pursuing their parents around the area in large groups, causing....
....some strain both on our feeding stations and our household finances.
The fat cake we buy comes from ASDA and the blackbirds are becoming such coinesseurs that they turn their noses - or should it be their beaks? - up at anything else.
Not that we begrudge the birds their food as they give us so much pleasure, particularly when we suddenly spot a 'new' bird like....
....a house sparrow. Until recently we didn't see a single sparrow in the garden, perhaps a symptom of their fall in numbers. Now they arrive half-a-dozen at a time.
Some of the small birds are very independent and refuse to be tempted into people's gardens. This includes the wrens, whose children are every bit as noisy as their parents, and....
....the warblers, some of which are still feeding young in the nest.
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