What have you seen

Thanks Guys/Gals

We have two boxes one aimed at Blue tits and the other with a slightly larger hole. This little bird is busy making both hole bigger or smoother or whatever. It can't make up its mind which one it likes best. Very strange to see it flit from one to the other. We do hope it stays.

We can hear the bluetits in one of our boxes, they do a lot of housekeeping and it's quite noisy. 

Ah, Spring. Went for a lovely walk around the locale today. The smell of newly mowed lawns, the cherry blossom, the silage!

Almost every bird we saw had some sort of nesting material or was singing from a vantage point. There was a lonely Swallow twittering away on a lamppost, loads of Chiffchaffs chiff-chaffing away.

Last year some Blue Tits found a small hole in the soffat boards above next doors kitchen window, just tucked under an overhanging so we could only see half of it. My MIL stopped the house owner (it's rented) from boarding it up in May as Blue Tits were on the nest. We are a little bit worried this year as the house has new owners who put up a temporary blockage about 4 weeks ago but it's fallen down and those pesky BT's are inspecting the hole. We'll have to make sure the hole isn't blocked up but I'm not so sure the new neighbour will take much notice. Have to send MIL out to scare him.

Typical, I come away for a few days then a rarity turns up less than 10 miles from home.  An American Bittern sighted at Carlton Marshes.  Hopefully it will stay around for a few days.😏

Lots of snipe displaying over our local moors this morning, more than I've ever seen before.

Pure magic 😊

I was looking out of one of our windows this evening and a Swallow flew past!! This seems very early in the year for one to be about in S.Cumbria.

First Swallows arrived here 8/4/18 (Shropshire/Cheshire border)

Haven't seen one here but if it warms up next week there'll be plenty of insect hatchings for them to feed up on.

Another miserable day of rain today in the south west. hope it is better where you are.

At least I got to watch the Blue Tits make up their mind which box to use, then start collecting nest material . It has been a blur this morning with non-stop activity.

The weather is dreadful the light is poor, the iso is on max at 12800, so not a lot of detail, just a record of action.

Both birds have been in and out all morning, so the nest must be just about ready for the lining material. Time to gather some of the daughters husky's fur. Lots available.

It looks like we have several pairs nesting in our garden this year. So far there are Dunnocks, Robins, Wrens, Sparrows in the garage roof, Blackcap quite close and Blackbirds. Unfortunately our long standing male with the white tail feathers that has nested for the past 5 years has not been seen this year so far.

Good pics BM, they have certainly been busy.

Our bird box hasn't been used for the last couple of years, even though I cleared it out after the last time it was used.