Bird life

The bird table is a flurry of activity this time of the year and there is always a mixed variety of foods on the menu. Breakfast time is especially busy and the nut feeders and fatballs hooked under the table are a mass of little colourful bodies gorging themselves. Plenty of blue tits, coal tits, great tits and the other day we had a swarm of long tailed tits which we do not see very often. The chaffinches, greenfinches and siskins appear sometime during the day.The robins and blackbirds prefer to dine on the table and love any form of cake, bread, bacon fat and yorkshire pudding scraps. Tiny wrens appear on the ground picking up any scraps. This morning a female pheasant came searching for food droppings on the ground under the table. After a good feed she casually strolled away, no doubt to investigate another neighbours bird table.