The Young of 2020

soooooo much quieter than starlings lol

And then quick put the feeders away!!!

Thanks, everyone, for the lovely photos!
Tony, Wonderful that your GSW Dad brought two youngsters! I wonder if your GSW Mum is off somewhere with another one or more little ones. While we had adult GSWs (one male and one female) visiting our feeders every year for 30+ years at our previous house, we only once saw a youngster. It was in our cherry tree and being fed by Mum from our sunflower heart feeder. Fabulous to see. Hoping to see youngsters very soon this year since we have a pair visiting our suet feeders every day.

Get some pastry or suet pellets in the posts nooks and crannies and they might keep coming back.
A well known nest site near me blew down in a gale before the season started this year. Unfortunately, I only heard the new site had been found about a day before they fledged. Typical ... but at least we know where to start looking next year!

See more of us tomorrow (when the lazy photographer finally finishes editing and stuff)

Cracking photos folks.

Not a lot here, but nice to see the juvenile house sparrows are becoming more prevalent.

A perfect little poser this one, until it heard the camera shutter (set on quiet) click....

Was that you  [looking towards me]?

There's that noise again!

What a strange noise!

And, the inevitable magpie family, all had a bath yesterday morning, both adults came off dryish, and junior, still soaking wet!

Now to air drier.......

Good idea Nigel, hadn't thought about doing that, could put some in the rotten wood on the top rail of the black posts that will be coming down soon. 3rd job on the current list. After replace two obelisks rotting, 6ft posts to support the raspberries which rotted and so it goes no.

Thanks Ann, we are ever hopeful that we will see two adults but Sun & Mon we only saw male and one juvenile. Hope that that one is now with female but I guess we'll never know. Unless of course they all descend on the garden. But probably not today, its nice outside and plenty of jobs are waiting.
Heres hoping for some pics from your feeders soon and you get lucky with little GSWs. We've been so excited recently with juve thrush and gsw's about we've hardly put bins and cameras down. Oh while the GSW were about on Sun a Green Woodpecker landed on the lawn, another post soon.

when the pond seems too daunting...

There is always the water bowl

Not the best bath in the world I guess!

and spied this one in the tree

Fabulous shots all :o)

Not the best pic, but the first of a juvenile robin right down the bottom of the garden.

More juvenile house sparrows