Today it seems that finally we have a full day of sun and the birds are coming back. Well at least the bigger ones. The past few days I have noticed that the two jays are coming together now and they don't get to be scared by other birds, on the contrary they have got to the habit of chasing the jackdaws who unfortunately are back, at least not in the big numbers they used to...
Still no sign of any of the small birds, where all the finches and blue teats have gone? They can't just have vanished or decide to boycot our garden...
Although there are no small birds coming to our garden at least we've got a considerate amount o butterflies and bumble bees. As we come from London and we were not used to much of wildlife there, although we had quite a big number of foxes and squirrels (after 8 months living on the island still haven't seen a single squirrel...) who they used to visit gardens and walk bravely in the middle of the road despite the traffic, we normally wouldn't see a lot of insects, except from same strange reason a lot of ladybirds which I haven't seen here at all...So seeing all these different colour and shape butterflies it is a treat and it kind makes up for the lack of small birds I guess. Still I'm hoping that I will see the return of the finches and blue teats pretty soon, if only the weather behaves as a normal weather should be for this time of the year, a bit of sun and heat will do a lot of good.
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