WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU 2020

That's about the quality I get of the birds in our garden with my rather old camera!

 

I'm pleased to say that the woodpeckers that lost their home last weekend in the storm now have a new one. Their 70ft poplar tree came down but they've moved into the next poplar. Although there's another nest in that one they are 30ft apart. I think they were originally part of the same family.

I've had an interesting time with our robins this last week. We usually have three pairs of robins, one in the front garden and two in the back - although we have had four in the past. As usual with robins they're all fearless and cheeky and are around all the time we are working in the garden.

One of the back garden ones sits on my shoulder when I'm digging or weeding but none of the others do that. Working in the front garden for the last few days I've had four robins with me all the time. None of them are back garden robins as their shape is different - smaller, thinner and more upright. I think they must be two adults and two young as they are all working very close together.

I have to be very careful not to tread on them or catch them with the tools as they get very close. One of them (I have a feeling it's a young one) is particularly cute and when I'm bending down weeding it comes almost right up to my face, bends its head back and looks straight into my eyes and makes a funny little sound. It's a very soft sound and more like a very short warble than a cheep. It does this continuously whilst looking at me. It's beak hardly opens at all when it does it. It has also started taking tiny worms from my hand. Do you think in reckons I'm part of the family?

 

Hello @shiney it probably thinks you are a garden gnome