Lunchtime!

Sparrows, busy picking up some of the grains that wind blows off the bird table. The seeds they don't like and don't pick up germinated in the damp weather, so now I have a little patch of grass growing on my balcony...

It's not the clearest picture but I was admiring the sparrows' persistence in flying in the fierce winds and resisting the gusts on the balcony itself, just to be very picky about their lunch.

Worryingly, they are mostly male. I hope it's just this one adventurous group and not a trend in a local population...