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Overnight Tuesday to Wednesday the rain never stopped at Sparrow Towers. I put my hog food on the covered patio by the my back door. I'm not sure how many hogs came to get out of the rain and have a feed(I only actually saw one) but most of the food was eaten and my patio was dotted with CCs. I'm th...

Apart from the influx of fledgling Starlings over the last week I have seen very few other fledglings. There have been a couple of Blackbirds and what I think was a Greenfinch and the Jackdaws

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Wed May 15, 2024 8:12 pm

A kookaburra has been spotted up in Scotland. Wonder if s an escapee.

It has to be as it's a long flight from Australia.

Mayhem at Loch of the Lowes. Below blogs as they were published by Lowes' staff. A sad time but that is nature. Original blog published Friday 3 May follows: We have a rapidly developing situation with our osprey nest at our Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve. The last sighting of breeding male LM1...

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Sun May 12, 2024 9:28 am

Had a jackdaw briefly in the garden the past week. Came in twice.

Word is getting around in the corvid community

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Sat May 11, 2024 4:40 pm

Seen my first dragonfly of the season this morning. It was a broad bodied chaser. Had to look it up. Think it was a male if the males are yellow. Females seem to be purple.

I think they are the earliest of the "big" Dragonfl ies

I have two Holly trees and plenty of Ivy which would explain why the Holly Blues were everywhere today enjoying the summery weather.

About this time every year I have a pair of fledgling Jackdaws. The nest is in a chimney about 5 doors away. The parent birds are with me most of the year. This year there are three fledglings and they are pillaging the fat balls.

I had more fledgling Starlings today but not in any great numbers.

Summer has arrived. I saw Swifts from my garden this afternoon.