What's buzzing or flying near you 2024 ?

I don't think they will be a problem round here, at least not for quite a while. The farmers are quite happy with them taking small rodents and there has never been a report in this area of anything bigger being attacked. I don't think anyone else along here throws out scraps/bones etc. for them.

A very large Prunus came into flower yesterday and it is now full of wood pigeons eating them

 

We have a wall that extends at right angles to our office window and is covered in ivy. The Robins are already deciding whereabouts in it they will make their nests - four distinctly different Robins are looking. We had three Robin nests in it last year and a blackbird's nest. Haven't seen the blackbirds yet.

Also there is a Leylandii hedge opposite where Wrens tend to nest but have only seen one Wren looking so far.

It's now taking me twice as long to type anything as I keep getting distracted by the birds.

 

The ivy on the wall outside my office has now got Wrens looking for a home as well.

 

It's fascinating watching the Robins and Wrens building their nests just outside my office window.

I have stacked dead leaves and moss, supplemented by Mrs Shiney's hair when I cut it, under a small Euonymous opposite the wall of ivy that they are using. They are certainly making good use of it.

Although they move too fast for me to be sure the Wrens seem to also have taking some small feathers in there as well. There are always some small feathers under the bird feeders.

Surprisingly, no Blackbirds have even appeared to take a look at the ivy this year. I can't remember a year in the last twenty that there haven't been Blackbirds there.