Next time you are in Purbeck, do visit the Courtyard Cafe in Corfe Castle. The sparrows enjoying our crumbs under the tables are a delight. (Also, there is a swifts' nest. I think. Unless it's swallows.)
We did! Swallows and martins galore around the castle itself, and sparrows in the model village cafe (the photo of the swallow was taken in the model village itself). The nest was likely swallow or house martin – swifts tend to nest in crevices eg under eaves rather than constructing an external nest.
After two years with hardly seeing a sparrow, this year they have nested in our pyracantha, we now have 40 and counting youngsters feeding on our bird table. Incidentally WigglyWigglers.co.uk produce great feed.
I'm awaiting my first encounter with a Kingfisher. Whenever that day arrives it'll be great!
And thank you, Lev, for making me more grateful for the community of sparrows which hang out in our hedge and flit across our garden regularly. How lucky are we?
Volume 33. Luck for some! Well all of us! Thank you
A point well made about sparrows.
At the end of our garden there is an old hedge the original farm land boundary with no housing estate behind it however the hedge itself is a superhighway, for sparrows each and every moment of the day. Then they sometimes fly in and often get caught in the fruit cage in my wife's garden so we have to rescue them.
And We have taken the fruit cage down to make life safer!
Sparrows here have demolished Sian, my wife's Swiss chard bed, So I have to think of another way to colour pasta and tray back dishes. They re welcome, 'em little birds. Enough!
Next time you are in Purbeck, do visit the Courtyard Cafe in Corfe Castle. The sparrows enjoying our crumbs under the tables are a delight. (Also, there is a swifts' nest. I think. Unless it's swallows.)
We did! Swallows and martins galore around the castle itself, and sparrows in the model village cafe (the photo of the swallow was taken in the model village itself). The nest was likely swallow or house martin – swifts tend to nest in crevices eg under eaves rather than constructing an external nest.
After two years with hardly seeing a sparrow, this year they have nested in our pyracantha, we now have 40 and counting youngsters feeding on our bird table. Incidentally WigglyWigglers.co.uk produce great feed.
Thanks David. Used to get bird food from WigglyWigglers – not exactly sure why we stopped! Thanks for the reminder.
I'm awaiting my first encounter with a Kingfisher. Whenever that day arrives it'll be great!
And thank you, Lev, for making me more grateful for the community of sparrows which hang out in our hedge and flit across our garden regularly. How lucky are we?
Volume 33. Luck for some! Well all of us! Thank you
A point well made about sparrows.
At the end of our garden there is an old hedge the original farm land boundary with no housing estate behind it however the hedge itself is a superhighway, for sparrows each and every moment of the day. Then they sometimes fly in and often get caught in the fruit cage in my wife's garden so we have to rescue them.
And We have taken the fruit cage down to make life safer!
Thanks you for a six wonders!
Thanks Tim. How wonderful you have a good sparrow population. I assume you have enough fruit to feed both birds and humans?
Sparrows here have demolished Sian, my wife's Swiss chard bed, So I have to think of another way to colour pasta and tray back dishes. They re welcome, 'em little birds. Enough!
Liv, all good wishes.
I SAW AN OSPREY!!!
It flew about 3 metres over my head!!! It was HUGE and incredible. (Crickhowell).
Please excuse capital letters. It was just soooo exciting.
The bridge was a fabulous bit of research.
Capital letters are definitely appropriate for such a close osprey encounter