Saturday Siesta

I haven't been able to take any afternoon walks this week, so have been watching the garden birds. We have 4 feeders in the garden, and the pond is also popular.

The number of species is increasing, long tailed tits are now regular visitors, as are the woodpeckers (both male and female, the male has a red patch on the back of the head). We have also had blackcap, bullfinches (both male and female), blackbirds, blue tits, great tits, sparrow, dunnock, wren, greenfinch, goldfinch and chaffinch.

The garden pond has a clump of frog spawn, and there are several adult frogs around. They can get quite loud at night, I guess it's a mating call of some kind.

We have sparrows nesting under a decorative gable, last year they reared 2 broods. We thought we would put up a 'sparrow mansion' this year, but the sparrows have gone back to their old nest, and bluetits have been inspecting the new box. They have hopped in and out, but I don't think they have started nest building. Time will tell.