Week 3

Start of 3rd week in new house and bird numbers in the garden continue to grow. We now seem to have 8 bluetits visiting the feeders, a pair of robin, dunnock and great tit and many goldfinch and chaffinch. A newcomer at weekend were a pair of greenfinch plus very vocal tawny and little owls at night. Still overhead were a count of 6 swallows but no sign of house martins anymore. As an aside there are still large numbers of swallows down dale from Reeth. Also overhead some quite large groups of thrushes. The local pheasant population also seem to have found the food in the garden which will no doubt please the Game Keepers but may prove rather expensive for us on food!