Speugs

Speug is a Scots word for sparrow. Oh yes I get all sorts of very common garden birds on the feeder. As the poet Norman McCaig wrote:

The Sparrow

He’s no artist
His taste in clothes is more
dowdy than gaudy.
And his nest – that blackbird, writing
pretty scrolls on the air with the gold nib of his beak,
would call it a slum.
To stalk solitary on lawns,
to sing solitary in midnight trees,
to glide solitary over grey Atlantics -
not for him: he’d rather
a punch up in a gutter.....

But I'm just pleased to see the birds making use of the feeder