Saturday 7 July 2012

Long Tail Tits

Somewhere nearby live a family of long tail tits.  They occasionally visit our garden, but they are an infrequent visitor.  Today they were here in force to use the feeders.
These birds are usually quite shy and will disappear in an instant if they are disturbed.  Not today, they were sharing the fat balls on the feeder with juvenile starlings and sparrows.  It is good to see there little birds on a warm day.  In the winter when they are fluffed up, they look like pom-poms on sticks.

Since we have had our new conservatory, the cats have had to be let out manually through the door. They were not impressed with the service.  To alleviate this, we have installed a cat flap in the utility room at the back of the garage so that they again have access to the outside world during the day.
This does not stop them from begging at the door, but at least they have another option if the servants are being a bit thick!

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