Spring Watch

We have no sign of the owls at present and I hope that they are not disturbed when work starts on the roof. However we have a pair of magpies building a nest in a tree about 15 metres from our/ John and Lesley's bathroom window.

Magpies seem to be the most successful bird around here, which is a little unfortunate for us as we are superstitious and spend our entire time saluting magpies to nulify the bad luck (one for sorrow, two for joy.........).

John bought a new camera last year and having now seen how good the zoom is (see pictures above) feels that the expense is totally vindicated.

My greatest wildlife delight is to see deer and I have seen three today. We went to our French lesson this morning and whilst we were there we had the added attraction of bird watching. Alison has a bird table on her window sill and has the most incredible variety of birds. For todays "Twitchers" it was a flock of Siskins and last week it was a Jay who knocks on the window because he would like to come in, please?!!!