Recent extreme weather
conditions has cause the birds in our garden to leave their nest
building activities and return to the business of survival.
Today,quite suddenly all that has changed and even though the weather
is still desperately cold my garden is suddenly full if little
lovers.
The net of dog hair is
once again receiving much attention as is the large ball of human
hair gleaned during the past few months from hair brushes. In the
ash tree we have hung large plastic drinks bottle with lots of
holes,this is stuffed with wood wool and is very popular with some of
the larger birds.
Blue Tits, courting
everywhere, our Blackbirds kanoodling in the orchard,even a pair of
Magpies spent quite a time in the walled garden,she begging food and
he providing small morsels until ,at last she allowed mating to take
place.
Twigs are at a premium
as not only do we have Magpies but Crows,Jays and a Rookery near by
the squirrels are fighting a war with these raiders who are stripping
the small twigs from their drays.
All around the garden
the show put on by the Magpies has been repeated by dozens of birds
during the course of the day,perhaps they know something about the
weather of which we are unaware. Perhaps it is just a matter of
timing,it is ,after all the end of March,who can say?
These brave little
feathered bundles continuing their daily lives in the face of such
awful weather conditions shows us how resilient nature can be,even so
I would ask anyone reading this to please keep on feeding things like
suet,crumbs and small seed,our birds will need all the help they can
get this year.....Thank you. Xxxxxx Avie xxxxxX
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