This moss will help keep the nest cosy. Right, that’s done. Now for something to eat. Jill’s digging her garden. I’ll just wait a moment till she puts her spade down and picks her coffee cup up… I hope the missus won’t be long. The babies and me want our dinner. I wonder if there’s … More Bringing Home the Bacon
Here are some photos of one of my favourite garden visitors, who hopped onto the back wall last week and stayed put for a while. All taken through my kitchen window in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, April 2018. All as taken, no cropping. My cottage is reflected in his eye in this last image.
As it’s still depressingly and irrepressibly wet outside today, I have taken a break from rain pictures to post instead something from last weekend. My new bird table is now installed in the back garden, and is starting to attract guests. So far, our regulars have been mainly our resident sparrows and robins, but I … More Bird breakfast at Jill’s
I am lucky to have a family of robins nesting in my front garden. I’ve unofficially sub-let privets to blackbirds, and plenty of sparrows have nested under the eaves and currently in a hole in the wall, but in ten years I think robins are a first. I am surprised how tame this cheeky little … More Bob-bob-bobbin’ along
Where there's a Jill there's a way 