Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Tuesday 20th April 1999
RAIN ALL DAY, a Coal Tit searches the branches of the Hebe. As I saw Long-tailed, Blue, Great, and Willow Tit at Hoyland Bank yesterday, I'm well into the British list. Rain of no rain, the resident Dunnocks also include the patio on their intricate searches for food items which seem to include; small insects, seeds and fragments of the nuts we've spread on the patio.
The cock Pheasant wanders into the garden, he sometimes comes as near to the house as the patio, attracted by the bird food.
The Robins started nest-building yesterday, using the old teapot that I fastened onto the end of the garden shed, behind the trellising, a few years ago. It has never been used before, though the Wren took an interest in it. I positioned it spout pointed down, to prevent waterlogging. The teapot is now hidden by ivy and honeysuckle. As far as I could tell it was just one of the resident pair of Robins that spent most of the day gathering the dried grass, fine twiggy debris and moss.
RAIN ALL DAY, a Coal Tit searches the branches of the Hebe. As I saw Long-tailed, Blue, Great, and Willow Tit at Hoyland Bank yesterday, I'm well into the British list. Rain of no rain, the resident Dunnocks also include the patio on their intricate searches for food items which seem to include; small insects, seeds and fragments of the nuts we've spread on the patio.
The cock Pheasant wanders into the garden, he sometimes comes as near to the house as the patio, attracted by the bird food.
The Robins started nest-building yesterday, using the old teapot that I fastened onto the end of the garden shed, behind the trellising, a few years ago. It has never been used before, though the Wren took an interest in it. I positioned it spout pointed down, to prevent waterlogging. The teapot is now hidden by ivy and honeysuckle. As far as I could tell it was just one of the resident pair of Robins that spent most of the day gathering the dried grass, fine twiggy debris and moss.