A nuthatch getting fat
Today was busy again getting back involved with the Neighbourhood Development Plan process. We have a series of meetings for the next two weeks which will be critical to the creation of the plan, after which will come the delivery process and a range of public presentations of various sorts, including the final documentation.
After I got home this afternoon the sun came out again after some very heavy rain and the garden called. I drove to town later to pick up Helena on her return from her day out in Cheltenham where she bought me some of my favourite French cheese, a Vignotte, which I am about to tuck into.
With a cup of tea we sat in the warm cabin in the early evening sunshine. Bomble joined us after feeding and sat on the sofa. I sat on a chair in the open window with a camera and waited for birds to arrive for food. The first to appear was a robin followed by great tits, bullfinches, a blackbird and two nuthatches. I photographed them all but chose this greedy nuthatch who checked me out with a a pair of beady eyes. The nuthatches don't seem afraid and fly in to feed even when I am standing on the patio close to the hanging feeders.
Bomble went out just before I went indoors, and walked over to the rhus tree where the feeders are hanging and sprayed his territory and then climbed up the trunk. I am so pleased that he is well again after his rather serious problems last week. He is getting old and arthritic but still needs to express himself. Don't we all. So I have put a picture of him in the 'Extra photos' section and a bullfinch who also liked stuffing its face.
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