Back to wet and windy today with some heavy showers and a strong W>5.
Young Starlings and House Sparrows are out in force now with up to 100 Starlings feeding in the park and at one point
38 House Sparrows on the garden feeders keeping Lynda busy today taking out supplies of wet bread for the youngsters.
The patch of ivy on the back of the house has so far this year produced 8 newly fledged House Sparrows and for the first time, 2 young Starlings, one of which crash dived into the garden this morning and was calling from the ground for about 1 hour before it made the effort and flew much to Lyndas relief who was on Magpie watch at the time.
Hope all this rain doesnt lift the water level at Fly Flatts too much.
If you,re into sea bird take a look at Andrews Farne Islands blog from the link on the right. What a way of life he has living there and taking boat trips around Holy Island although I can imagine how hard it must be up there over the winter months. When I was Honorary Organiser for the RNLI doing voluntary fund raising I used to go to the Humber Lifeboat Station at Spurn Point and the weather was atrocious and a frightening 60ft swell on the sea was , a bit rough, to them. brave lads.
BS
2 comments:
Good do with the ivy Bri - waiting for Spotted Fly now then !
Farne Islands site is very good - I like the Puffin bit, up to its neck in water and still sitting on the egg! Dedication or what.
Ive heard it said that in a fire Linnets will stay on the nest and burn before move ?
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