What's flying near you?

Well it's the week of the babies in our garden; a robin hopping about and 2 brand new looking wrens. Also family of warblers, willow or garden and looks like 2 new families of swallows. They seem seriously overcrowded in and out of the old coal shed. A family of sparrows in the eaves over the kitchen making a racket.

I was particularly pleased to see the wrens as I inadvertently destroyed their nest early in the year. I took out a 2' high roll of chicken wire to put round the peas for protection and saw the centre had been stuffed full of what looked like rubbish. I thought it was likely mice but realised it was an untidy wren's nest but I'd removed it all by then, there was masses of it for such a small bird - compared to a big wood pigeon that makes do with just a few sticks.

Then there was a heron landed on the drive before flying off down the lane, not likely a baby.