What is very small and very wet?

Today I was hoping to be able to share with you photos from Claire, April and the RSPB Events team of their final masterpiece at BBC Gardeners World Live. You may remember they gave us a glimpse of wardrobes, kitchen sinks and empty milk bottles leaving us to imagine how that could all be turned into a thing of beauty and wonder.

Well, internet connections appear from Birmingham appear to be limited, so you've got today, tomorrow and Sunday to go and have a great day at the show and see it for yourself, and the rest of us will have to wait until next week's blog.

So instead, what you get today is my Cute Moment No 1 of the week.

It all happened in my stone birdbath. There was this little head poking nervously up above the rim.

I'll let you play the guessing game for a moment, Remember, this is only a small birdbath, so normally it is really easy to see what species of bird is wallowing about in it.

Up it fluttered, hovering over the water in a whirr of tiny wings...

...before plonking itself down on the rim of the birdbath.

Hopefully now the tell-tale features are all in view. Dull green back, thin white wing bar and dark wing patch, fine bill...oh, and a 'gold crest'. I think that gives it away, then!

Those black streaks down this Goldcrest's chest are just wet feathers, and I'm sure it looked very dapper once it had towelled itself down and header back up into the spruce trees to feed.

So there we have it, Europe's smallest bird, weighing just over 5 grams - or a little more when soggy!