It is very quiet in the garden, this year much more so than in previous years. Not that my food is lasting long though. I still got a large amount of Rooks and Jackdaws daily gobbling up the seeds. I haven't any peanut cake on the planter at the moment, simply because I didn't have all the ingredients in the house. And it seems that one particular guest is not very satisfied that it is not here. Still, a good search might show it eventually?
In these few pictures on the top you can really see the brown wing feathers which JJ still has as a bird in his first spring. It seems very hard to get these colours right.
A tree which grows near the council estate's entrance, is host to Starlings once again. They will regroup here after winter, and start courting, before spreading out in pairs to breed. The tree is across the little road to the little PC hardware factory. The tiny factory stands behind our house, down the slope.
I count myself really lucky in a way, that these Starling are not interested in the food supplied here somehow. Once did I spot eight of them wander into the front garden, and they often sit in the lower branches of the Hawthorn behind the wall, but somehow they don't follow the others into the gaden. Lucky me.
Here's a few of those which are still calling in:
Great Tit.
Robin, I am really looking forward to Robin juvies again. Their ruddy colours are simply beautiful.
The Sparrows are taking stock of the available food again in their territory. Suddenly they are coming more often again, and with them too, I can hardly wait for the result in a couple of months time.
Here are some other pictures for those Corvid lovers.
Hi Yoke,
ReplyDeleteI very much like your descriptions of bird behaviour. Just read your story of the wren and the caterpillar. Very good.
Thank you, Rob.
ReplyDeleteI think that observing bird behaviour, is the fun part of caring for birds. how they do things in life which then gets you thinking of why it was done. ( the ex social worker thinking, still in my head I guess) LOL.