New Life

We never cease to enjoy the priviledge of living in the middle of Nature and we were lucky enough to watch Magpies raise a brood of 4 youngsters and also little Black Redstarts raise young in the wall of our porcherie.  And now we are watching the Kestrels raising chicks in a hole in the rear wall of the house, despite temperatures of over 40 deg C

There are two chicks in the photo … whether there are any more, or whether they will survive remains to be seen … I could only see one today!

As I'm writing this I've just see the male fly in with a large vole in his mouth, so we are keeping our fingers crossed for success.

But now we have a little wren who has made a tiny nest of moss in a hole in the stone wall of our porcherie.  We have been seeing her fly out when we've been going in and out of it so today I set myself up in the window of our bedroom to watch.

As you can see there are at least two chicks needing feeding!