Highlight of the week was a Nuthatch on the 16th calling loudly for about 50 seconds from a tree over the back fence. This is a first in the 13 plus years I've been living here.
Generally it's been the Woodpigeon pair that eat the next door neighbours out of house and home. A couple of Wren, the male of which must be trying to contact his pal in Ozstrylia judging by the volume. The odd distant large gull flies over, a Blackbird sings on occasion and breeding Blue and or Great Tits make noise.
My cousin lives in a North Cornwall village and for the third successive year he has a pr Blackbird breed in his garden. The male has become tame; it perches on his window, chair or whatever and feeds on crumbs after meals have been finished. Recently his Mrs walked across the street to visit a neighbour and it followed her, the cheek of it 😲.
Just to really cheese me off, when I asked him how he's doing with House Martin, he nonchalantly replied there are 6 nests under the roof eaves. The best I can do is a couple or three have been flying over the back field this past few weeks.
