What have you seen

We love seeing "our" woodpecker, usually we see one baby later in the summer. I wonder if they pass the pitch on to their descendants? Lovely story Milo, we're lucky to see all these things. 

The wild parakeets we have locally can be quite entertaining as well, especially when the trees are laden with fruit.  I have also seen a Green Woodpecker in our garden on the odd occasion.  In fact we are very lucky with the amount of different wild life we have, especially when you consider how urban it is where we live in South London.

Heard curlew calling on our local moors this morning, 1st ones of the year here on their regular breeding grounds.

Didn't see them, in fact didn't see anything, not even the sheep, just thick, swirling mist 😱

Have been outside quite a bit today, spotted a blackbird with a mouthful of nesting material heading into a bay bush by our home. also a robin has started nest building in one of the hedges. Time to stop hedge cutting, but we've managed to get some tree pruning done.

Spring has sprung (hopefully!) It's lovely and mild today, but squelchy under foot. 

Great story Milo. We have 2 pairs in the woods behind us and you can tell the difference in pitch between the two. Gets interesting at this of year when the interloper is feeding on the nuts and the other one arrives.

The owners of that house that he likes should be grateful that they don't live in Germany and have a Black Woodpecker visiting. Boy, you should hear them.

I wish we'd set our trail camera up near our house to film the blackbirds building their nest, I've seen so much "stuff" being taken in over the last few days. The large Bay bush has been used for the same purpose before and they go in via the back, well out of sight from the garden but in view from our conservatory. Blackbirds use all sort of things for their nests. I found a YouTube video of something similar.

I mentioned Parakeets in my post above. this is about 1-2 miles from us

Friends of ours lived on Mitcham Common, before the Parakeets arrived, they moved a bit further away and the parakeets have reached them now. When I saw a pair in Bristol recently I realised just how far they have spread. 

Spring must have finally arrived in the bird kingdom.

Today while on my dog walk I watched a crow peel a large length of moss from a tree branch and fly off with it.

I did not even know that crows used moss, I thought it would just be twigs and leaves.

Our single Parakeet is still around, being very vocal in the park, he/she needs a mate now.