After the blue tits and great tits recently fledged, the
garden has become a much quieter place.
The chicks can sometimes be heard in the trees and bushes
nearby, but their begging cries for food from their parent will soon disappear;
as they learn how to find their own food and the parents take them further away
from the garden area.
In the absence of the tits and their youngsters, the sound
of house sparrows and swooping swallows is infrequently heard.
However the house sparrows may become more prominent as a
pair of house sparrows has taken interest in the blue tit nest box and nest.
In previous years the house sparrows have nested a couple of
times on top of an abandoned tit nest, and it seems this may be happening again
– hopefully they won’t block the camera view!
The magpies have also moved away, with their fledglings,
although they may well be in the same areas as the young smaller birds – which
may result in some of the tits not being able to return to the garden in later
summer and autumn.
After the slugs and snails tried to take out the young
sunflowers, the survivors are doing ok in the garden.
The tomato plants and the broad beans are also out in the
garden, and hopefully will continue to grow in this warm and often wet weather.
There’s be more planting going on in the garden in the
coming weeks, so hopefully growing conditions will continue to be favourable –
plenty of sun once the plants are able to bear fruit.
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