This year has been one of the better ones as far as birds are concerned within my garden. For the first time every a parent great spotted wood pecker was feeding it's young from the peanuts and a family of magpies have taken over the garden along with a few wood pigeons. The magpies i know are a pest but they can be very funny indeed and clever. The jays are coming in all the time and loads of blue tits and great tits also jackdaws. The squirrels have been in numbers, seeing the young ones working out how to get peanuts etc from a squirrel box is a laugh. Every now and then a sparrowhawk comes in looking for a little meal we see feather on the lawn where it has been successful. At night we have loads of hedgehogs so all in all we have an abundance of wildlife and all within 6ft from the house, in fact a squirrel came in the lounge the other day when the patio door was open. The one thing we do not have is swallows or swifts, winter the blackcaps come every year along with the usual winter birds. I just thought i would post this as someone might be interested in it. Yes and now we seem to have adaptored a few white doves.
Roll on this good earth.
