With the crows now taking all the fat balls I had to try to
dissuade them and found a plastic flower pot did the trick.....so far.
We have three blue tits nesting in the garden but unlike Don's blue tits
mine have not fledged yet and watching the adults in and out of their
boxes them alternating between foraging in the trees for caterpillars
and visiting the fat balls to feed their young.
The great tits here that
nested in a box that starlings used to nest in (hence the large hole) had their
nest raided by a great spotted woodpecker on Saturday. My
wife heard the commotion and saw the woodpecker with several well grown
young great tits on the lawn and she thought the woodpecker left empty
handed while the young great tits vanished into the borders.
A moorhen
now is coming in regularly, picking up spilt food from the feeders and
taking it away to feed it's young and if the crow flies in the moorhen
sees it off.
On returning home from South Wales where ash dieback is
taking hold, noticed ash trees close to home looking not well at all. Stewart.
Images Copyright : Stewart Dennis.
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