Last week we set the bird feeders up but to be honest for the first weekend nothing appeared. Things have warmed up as the week progressed however and now we seem to have a regular crew of feeders at the station. New comers this week include blue and great tit, dunnock, robin and chaffinch. Everything seems to be far more wary than the birds around the village and wonder if it is just that they are less used to feeders or taht the garden is far more open and they are more vulnerable to attack? Talking of which, from the garden we are getting regular sighting of both kestrel and sparrowhawk down by the river. Still plenty of house martins around but numbers of swallow are falling away quickly as temps drop down to about 5/6 degrees over night.
Best thing so far was putting up our nest boxes (yes I know its a bit late!! or early!!) Box had only been up 1 hour when one of our newly arrived blue tits popped straight inside for a look - a winter roost sight perhaps? Several other new birds seen from garden including 2 cormorant which as a local fly fisher was not such a welcome sight!! They did seem to be moving fairly quickly east so hopefully they are on Teeside by now.
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