Blue Tit Big Brother

The blue tits have had a busy day nest building today. Here’s a few minutes out of their day:

https://secure.raggedstaff.net/nestwatch/20100405.flv

And this is what they finished up with:

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I did mean to post something on Saturday, but I kind of got distracted. I feel I should record the events of Saturday though, if only so that in future years we can look back and see when it all happened.
So, as reported on Twitter, on Saturday 27th March we saw the first signs of [...]

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I made marmalade today—a rewarding but messy business that consequently involves a lot of time standing at the kitchen sink washing things up. The window by the kitchen sink looks out across the patio, where we have a ground feeder and various other things to attract birds.
The cold weather seems to have brought in a [...]

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There seem to be an awful lot of butterflies around the garden at the moment. Mostly it’s white things fluttering around the nasturtiums but we’ve spotted the occasional more interesting butterfly. Or moth. I’m not even sure what the difference between butterflies and moths is, so no hope of working out the species!
This little beastie [...]

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Since this is a blog about the wildlife in our garden it seems only right to say a few words about the wildlife in our garden of the moment. Right now we’re on holiday and ‘our garden’ is the gorgeous St Martins Campsite on the Isles of Scilly. I first came here 40 years ago, [...]

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