I had a pleasant surprise yesterday - driving back from the DIY shop, a bird I thought was a pigeon flew in front of the car. Usually I speed up for pigeons, but I was nearing a junction so I didn't. As I stopped at the junction, I glanced to where the "pigeon" had landed in the shrubbery, and discovered it was a
jay! These birds are mostly woodland birds, so I was rather surprised to see it right next to an industrial estate on the A13 road...

Oh, thought my tits had come a cropper yesterday... the tits are nesting in the privet tree in next doors' garden. I was outside gardening and heard some strange rustlings coming from over the fence but it wasn't til I got upstairs and looked out of the window here that I saw the neighbours had cut back half the privet tree! I thought my tits were homeless, and worse, eggless!

Luckily, this morning, it looks like the tree fellers missed the branches with the nest in, but it could now be open to attack from the crow that's sitting in the gutter above me. He's already had a go at the pigeon "nest" in my buddliea bush, I hope he can't see where my tits are.

LTS