SPRING SUNSHINE INCREASES BUILD WORK FOR THE HOUSE SPARROWS

Following another cold spell of winter weather, spring is certainly starting to stamp its presence and the flora and fauna are taking advantage.

The flower beds are becoming awash with colour from daffodils, snowdrops, crocuses and tulips.

This image may not do just to the previous sentence, so I’ll be taking more in the coming weeks as the number of flowers blooming starts to increase. The first one is from January.

 

 

The fruit tree has been the fastest reactor to the warmer weather in the last few days, with the branches now adorned with pinky white blossom. It looks like someone has dipped the tree in glue and then stuck thousands of pieces of cotton wool to it.

Of course the fauna is also making the most of spring appearing, with the female house sparrow having a few days rest from the aggressive male, to build up the nest – see below.

 

I’ve not seen the male inside the nest for a few days, so perhaps he’s been issued with the sparrow equivalent of an ASBO.

The robins and blackbirds are not frequenting the garden as much, certainly only the male blackbird is visible, while I can only assume that the lone robin is also the male.

While I think it’s too early to talk about eggs being laid, it wouldn’t surprise me. The only problem is finding the nest!

I’ll try to check out previous nest sites in the next couple of weeks and relay any positive news on here.

Until then I’ll be keeping a close eye on both nest box cameras and also movement in the garden.