A Little Adventure

Check him out! This is one of our little Great Tit babies that are hanging out in our garden at the moment! They're pretty timid so stay in the tree most of the time crying to mum and dad for more food. I have to say, mum and dad, hats off, you have been working like crazy.

But this little fella decided to brave it and go for a little adventure. Hopping around the garden, getting stuck in, looking for insects no doubt. We got a little worried at one point as we thought he was going to hop into the house. But instead he flew up onto the neighbours roof – hence the shot above.

Here (s)he is in the tree at the bottom of the garden.
What a cutie!

What a Great Pair!

What a lovely start to the Bank Holiday weekend. I came home from work to such a racket in the garden! And what do I find – two Great Tits razzing around like nobodies business.

They had three little fledglings in the big tree at the back of the garden – no wonder they were busy! Well they were doing a great job – I put out some dried mealworms for them which they lapped up instantly.

Also saw a Wren running backwards and forwards, hopefully he's got a brood on the go – with the hard winter we had they need to boost their numbers. Historically Wrens have been pretty good at bouncing back so fingers crossed he's doing his little bit. Imagine how small a baby Wren would be! Incy teeny weeny – bet they're so cute!

Dead chuffed about the Great Tits, we've also had a baby Starling, Blackbird and a little Dunnock. Waiting on the Goldfinches now... come on Gary, don't let us down!

Baby where art thou

Well, another bit of avian excitement today. Due to the not very nice weather today we were both indoors, upstairs in our studio (well... spare bedroom full of computers really) we had the window open to let a nice little breeze in and bob's ya uncle what flew straight in through the window but a little baby blackbird! Bless him. I reckon he must've just fledged, his tail feathers were very short and he was a little more than unsteady on his feet.

He flew straight in and landed on my desk! we both panicked a bit, thinking oh my word, this is going to be interesting trying to get the little fella out again... we shut the door and sat down so he wasn't spooked and he just turned round and flew right out again!

I've really learnt to appreciate blackbirds this year, they look so proud and dapper. The little babies are brown and spotty, there should be a fair few around so look out for them, hopefully you won't get as close as we did this afternoon!

I think we'll name him Billy. Billy the silly blackbird :-) He did brighten our day.