7th May..... Shopping for Flour.

A good walk over to our local village shop, heard they had flour, hard to find around here at the moment. Walking past a cottage with the cricket pavilion close by, the club established 1875.

 

Saw a different male starling, in his splendid breeding plumage put in a brief  appearance.

The pair I have nesting in the garden ignored it and carried on slowly feeding their newly hatched young. Incubation period being just 12 days and about three weeks to fledging.

A male bullfinch also started coming onto the sunflower seed, maybe wanting a bit of help filling it's crop which it will regurgitate  when feeding his chicks.

Heard a song thrush opening a snail, opened the garden gate and saw it fly on to the neighbours' shed roof with a small morsel, off to feed it's young I guess.

Dunnocks coming in close searching for whatever they can find underneath a bird table close to the backdoor.

Moorhen's pretending to be a blue tit.

The male and female starlings are constantly feeding their young and as the young grow so will their appetites, a busy time ahead for our breeding birds. Stewart.
Images Copyright : Stewart Dennis.