Spring 2025
After a huge gap in my posts, we arrive in 2025. This spring has been the best ever for birds in the garden. Probably due to the dry hot weather, there are a record number of young tits coming to the feeders. Coal Tits, Blue Tits, Great Tits and Long-tailed Tits - we've got the lot! An occasional visitor is a Nuthatch who loves the peanuts. But best of all, the number of finches is incredible. We are seeing Bull Finches, Green Finches and Gold Finches on a daily basis. And for this year for the first time, Great Spotted Woodpeckers feeding on the peanuts. The Blue Tits had their usual batch of youngsters in the box. I have put up a new box at the bottom of the garden for next year to see if Great Tits or Coal Tits will oblige. ( Bull Finches enjoying the sunflower hearts on offer) ( A young Gold Finch wonders what all the fuss is about ) ( A hungry Green Finch tucks in ) Switching to the night scene, we are still seeing Hedgehogs visiting and also observing bats (probably Pipistre...