There is a little group of sparrows, what looks like one male and three females, who are working steadily through the rosebed. The roses are now showing a lot of leaf and once they’ve investigated the depths of the snow-in-summer, almost disappearing amongst the blue-grey foliage, they go from rose to rose searching for insects.
The sparrows are keeping by-and-large to the section of the garden close to the house, alternating between the rosebed and the birdtable, where they are clustered on the refilled fat ball. The jackdaws are flooding into the further part, squabbling over the cone peanut feeder, levering out the nuts between the wire mesh. Meanwhile, a solitary ring dove and a pair of chaffinches, with remarkable sang froid, are weaving amidst the black marauders on the lawn.
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