It's being a few days now since I've written anything but the weather hasn't being of much help or improvement. It seems that whoever god is in control of the seasons he/she decided to skip summer this year and move straight to autumn. I mean it is the 4th of July already and we didn't even have one decent sunny summer's day yet without raining, wind and not being cold. And if we humans are complaining imagine how the rest of nature feels like especially those species like birds who are dependent on good weather to find food...

I guess this is where humans can be for once helpful and not so destructive and provide at least some food for them. This is why I guess the last few days our local birds are queueing for the bird feeder and waiting for their turn to poke their heads in one of the feeding holes available. The blue teats are the cutest as they try to fit most of their head and as much of their body in those holes and one of these days one of them sooner or later will get stuck in one of the holes. But it is quite funny watching the other birds waiting patiently to get an opportunity to go to the feeder (we are planning to add another one now that they finely decided to use it) by standing on the fence next to it or on the metal hanger from which the feeder is hanging. Even the blackbirds which their number has increased the past few days have now figured out that there is food under the feeder since the little ones are messy eaters and they throw seeds that they don't like everywhere.
The bad weather had one good effect though, now it seems that less jackdaws are coming, let's hope that this is because they found somewhere else to go. The younng magpie though is still coming and demands to be fed but now his/her mum ignores him/her and she/he has to fed for him/herself. But the noise that this young bird makes for his size is quite unbelievable and very annoying.

This morning the weather seems a bit more promising with a quite a bit of sunshine but on the other hand it doesn't seem to be a lot of bird action with the only exception the blackbird who was first to go where I put some fresh food. Let's hope that the weather stays dry and that more birds will appear again.