After a couple of semi-decent days with a bit of sunshine and not as warm as it should have been for the middle of the summer, the rain is back again, confusing everybody and in particular our bird visitors in our garden. With all this bad weather it seems that we have lost many of our regular birds, particularly the teats and finches, and the noisy one, which I haven't heard or seen for a few days now.
But at least we have some other regulars now, a bit bigger ones, with the young magpie taking residency more or less in our garden as she spends more of her time in our garden as there is food along with a few wood pigeons and in particularly a bully male one who seems to chase all the other ones and he seems particularly fond of a young female who doesn't leave in peace to eat. On the other hand the whole thing is rather entertaining particularly from our catspoint of view as they seem to find the whole pigeon chasing scenario rather entertaining (perhaps more entertaining than what is currently on normal TV channels).

Along with the wood pigeons the mother and young magpie another regular is the male blackbird and thank god for the less than regular now, the jackdaws who seem to finally got the message and to have stopped coming at least in hordes.

The one from our current regulars who proves to be quite a character and who for some reason I think it's a female is the young magpie who has become really bold and brave. This morning I spotted her walking on the window sill while she was trying to get to the seeds and the few bread crumbs I left for the smaller birds and at the same time she was pecking at the window under the strict observation from one of my cats who was sitting on the window sill inside. The young magpie simply didn't care and she didn't even mind the cat, on the contrary she looked like she was daring my cat to come and get her, knowing obviously that she was quite safe because of the double glazed window. She might be at times noisy but she is proving to be quite entertaining and a very brave young bird.