(21-03-2021, 12:03 AM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]I've had to put tights on my wing mirrors - doesn't everybody?
The sparrows have been attacking the mirrors and pooing all over the doors, while they wait for their turn to chase off their "rival" who looks surprisingly like them!!
First time I saw them a couple of days ago I was fascinated - today, having to scrub off their mess, I am not quite so enchanted.
My socks weren't big enough to go over the wing mirrors so I had to rummage around for a pair of tights (pop-socks actually)!! Hope it works but I must remember to remove them before I drive anywhere - I can imagine the comments. 
MiL had the same problem with some small bird (can't remember which), she had to cover her wing mirrors. She also had pheasants (by the dozen) admiring themselves in the lower window panes and posturing against their reflections. There were dozens of pheasants because she fed the local pheasants that had been bred for shooting. I often wonder whether they managed to avoid the guns.
(21-03-2021, 12:03 AM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]I've had to put tights on my wing mirrors - doesn't everybody?
The sparrows have been attacking the mirrors and pooing all over the doors, while they wait for their turn to chase off their "rival" who looks surprisingly like them!!
First time I saw them a couple of days ago I was fascinated - today, having to scrub off their mess, I am not quite so enchanted.
My socks weren't big enough to go over the wing mirrors so I had to rummage around for a pair of tights (pop-socks actually)!! Hope it works but I must remember to remove them before I drive anywhere - I can imagine the comments.
Wagtails here - we end up chucking a tarp over the car. Then the wagtail starts spotting rivals in every window of the house ...
this little fella called up on the back door step this morning [
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A red kite soaring over the field across the road. Two longtailed tits are a pair who visit the fat balls regularly during the day. A daft blue tit excavating somewhere in neighbour's fascia/soffit extracting glass fibre insulation, presumably to make room for a nest. We got quite worried yesterday when we found a place beneath a hedge littered with bits of insulation, having no idea where it came from. P went round the house on his ladders looking for holes and debris but came up with zilch. This morning we saw the culprit. She enters a hole in next door's roofline hidden from sight and exits with a beakfull of insulation then sits in the hedge and drops it to the ground ready for us to clear up of course.
Had 3 Buzzards above us for most of yesterday afternoon.
At least 2 pairs of bullfinches around at the moment.
There were 2 lapwing flying over the field next to us last week but don't seem to be around any more. The farmer has recently ploughed it though.
They did used to nest there for years when a different farmer had the field and grew mainly winter wheat. It seems to be permanently maize grown in it now.
Swallows!
Just two zipping through the garden heading north.
And a pair of bullfinches checking out the honeysuckle arch for a nest perhaps?
Had a Long tailed tit flying around this morning looking into everything, it even came into the lean-to
Black Redstart, haven’t seen them for a couple of years.