Well, today was a rather suprising day not only because of the amount of bird traffic we had in our garden - despite the constant downpour all day (poor people in Glanstobury) but also because of the sudden appearance of a young blackbird who reminds us a lot of the young one who we kinda looked after for a few days a couple of weeks ago. Of course it is quite probable that this is just another bird and we are just hoping but the fact remains that he hops around in the garden as the little one used to do, going to place he used to hide, comes close to the door and looks inside quite bravely and as my partner says he even tilts his head like the young one used to do. Could it be the same bird? If so why did it appear now after all this time and where had he been the past couple of weeks?
Of course we probably just hoping and expecting a behaviour from a small bird that birds usually do not exhibit but then again many migrant birds come again and again to the same place to nest and raise families. So who knows?

As for other birds there was great a good mix today, even blue teats who I hadn't seen for a few days hanging from the feeder as well as quite a few green finches (not as many as 10 as we used to see last month). All this rain perhaps has made it harder to find food anywhere else so they all came back where they know that there is food for certain. But let's hope that the weather will improve soon so we can finally get a bit of proper warm summer weather and the bird food doesn't get washed away as soon as you put it outside!!


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