So we've moved house and with the house came a garden with only one resident, an extremely scruffy robin. However, the deployment of six bird feeders soon saw our popularity rise. A dunnock was the second visitor and the first onto a feeder - the robin is a bit slow - soon followed by....
....a very smart pair of great tits and....
....a pair of blue tits, who were quick to find a way through the anti-starling mesh around the biggest feeder.
A pair of chaffinches came next, and they were first to use the bird table, minus its mesh.
A pair of pied wagtails also came calling, spending some time in the field next to the house before flying on to the fence to check us out.
So this looks like being a good location for small birds, though I don't suppose it'll be long before the starlings arrive to lower the tone.
Across the field and beyond the ex-Council houses there is a conifer plantation and, in the distance, the hills of Sutherland. But look closely: right in the middle of the picture, in the trees, is a heron, one of three we've seen there at any one time. So we have a heronry to watch.
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