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| Blue tit |
I thought the blackbird was running late with its pre-dawn chorus then remembered we'd put the clocks forward. It was another stupidly windy day, with plenty of rain attached to it. I caught up with my sleep and pottered about the house before going over to see my dad for tea. The birds in the back garden were in a similar mood, mooching about in the roses or the embankment ivies, the sparrows and titmice coming to the feeders, the woodpigeons coming in to bathe before returning to the crowd grazing the school playing field.
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| Spadgers |
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| Spadgers |
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| Spadger, one of the old lads |
The back garden is littered with pine cones, most of which still have some suet on them. They should be hanging from branches from lengths of hairy string but the magpies have decided that hairy string is the must-have component for a comfortably lined nest. As a result they've been unpicking the knots quicker than I can tie them back up again and in a couple of cases the string had been so pulled about it wouldn't take the weight of the pine cone anyway. All part of the game, I suppose.
- Blackbird 1
- Blue tit 3
- Carrion crow 2
- Dunnock 1
- Great tit 1
- House sparrow 15
- Jackdaw 2
- Lesser black-back 1
- Long-tailed tit 1
- Magpie 3
- Robin 1
- Starling 1
- Woodpigeon 3
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