We have a very brave sparrow in the garden. She comes very close to me to get meal worms and, if I'm not there she lands on the door handle and looks into the conservatory as if to say where's my food? She has me very well trained feeding her on demand. As it turns out her nest is in our loft. Ahh. The babies fledged on the 26th. The one above is sitting on our fence waiting to be fed.
"In busy mart and crowded street,
There the smoke-brown sparrow sits" E .Cooke
11th Conker trees in full flower. Goldfinch briefly in garden before going next door to eat the groudsel.
" I love to see the little Goldfinch pluck,
the groundsel's feathered seed;
And then in bower of apple-blossoms perched.
trim his gay suit and pay us with a song.
I would not hold him prisoner for the world.
J Hurdis"
Great tit , blue tit, sparrows, pigeons and starlings in garden today. Dunnock displaying fluttering behaviour as seen during mating and in fledgelings at feeding time.
12th - Hail fell today.
13th- Goldfinch feeding today, and a collared dove was fighting a pigeon twice his size. The fledgling sparrows are in the garden feeding.
