The female spadgers are out in groups in the back garden, which suggests the spadglings should be having their coming out parties this week. I'll have to replenish the fat feeders ready for them.
Had the weather been warmer and less windy I'd have opened the windows so the spadgers and blue tits could have a go at the spiders webs they've been trying to peck at from outside. The blue tits are looking frazzled, the hens always look the worse for it as they do the bulk of the sitting and don't have much time for bathing or preening and almost always get bothered by mites. I actually caught the male coal tit slipping into the garden today, too.
The dawn chorus continues to be an attenuated process. The blackbird territories are a bit fuzzy, they seem to share the little park (an acre of mown grass) on the other side of the railway. The robins' boundaries are, inevitably, much firmer stuff. Literally, again, this year as the road is the boundary between "my" robin and the school's. Every so often they hurl songs at each other across the divide. The blackcap's singing less during the day now, which suggests he has more than his own mouth to feed.
The swifts are around but not showing much. Most evenings half a dozen of them wheel high above the shops on Barton Road but I've not seen them drift over this way yet. I've had no luck with the local bat-hunting, either. I'm hoping the warmer weather forecast at the end of the week might turn that round.
- Blackbird 2 singing
- Blackcap 1 singing
- Blue tit 2
- Coal tit 1
- Collared dove 1 singing
- Feral pigeon 2 overhead
- Goldfinch 1
- Great tit 2, 1 singing
- House sparrow 7
- Jackdaw 2
- Lesser black-back 2 overhead
- Long-tailed tit 2
- Robin 1 singing
- Starling 3
- Woodpigeon 3, 1 singing
- Wren 1 singing
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