A Splash of colour

Don't believe everything the RSPB tell you. We thought we had a lot of House Sparrows in Lincolnshire. That was nothing to what we have now, and they are supposed to be under threat.

You will have to look closely - they are well camouflaged. This is below just one of four feeding stations. A neighbour recently counted over sixty of the little blighters roosting in the clematis on our shed, and they all spend an awful lot of their day in our garden.
No wonder then that we got excited at lunchtime yesterday when we had a visit from our frequent juvenile woodpecker, this time accompanied by his Mum AND THEN, his Dad joined them too. We have become used to any of them popping in and out throughout the day - but never before have we seen them all at once.
Even better than that, was opening the curtains to find this lovely splash of colour on the ground under the feeder.................


He paid us many visits yesterday during the day and evening, and has called back quite a few times today too. I guess that will be the last we see of him for a while, he never seems to visit for more than a couple of days at a time.