I'd had three hours' sleep and the alarums and excursions of the night extended unto lunchtime so I shelved the plan for the day, which is just as well as I had eyes like peepholes in the snow. (They all lived happily ever after in the end.)
Mid-morning brought three new, spotty and scruffy blackbirds to the back garden where they made a performance of taking a bath under the supervision of the adult male before lurching up into the rowan tree to make a worse first of grabbing berries by the beakful than I would have done. The young great tits have white cheeks now though their napes and wings still have yellow tones. I know there are young wrens about more by instinct than observation, the male's not sung for a few days though he's still on the alert patrolling the garden, especially when there are magpies about.
- Blackbird 4
- Carrion crow 1
- Collared dove 2
- Feral pigeon 1
- Great tit 2
- House sparrow 4
- Jackdaw 2
- Magpie 2
- Robin 1
- Woodpigeon 4
- Wren 1
The gulls have sussed that the lunchtime banquet's suspended for the Summer holidays. The lesser black-backs pass over in the evenings as they go off to roost but are absent during the day. Today there were just five black-headed gulls dancing for worms on the playing field, joined by three adult herring gulls. The crowd scenes were provided by the jackdaws.
- Black-headed gull 5
- Feral pigeon 3
- Herring gull 3
- Jackdaw 18
- Rook 7
- Woodpigeon 6
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