The fat block was the main source of attraction today. I’ll need to see if the butcher has some suet. Three woodpeckers came, at one time or another, tucking their tails up to steady the wireblock. They are beautiful, but one valuable thing has been the little gaps between the bigger birds, when a bluetit and then a coaltit came to get their share.
There was a scatter of little brown birds on the grass, with a couple of ring doves and one oblivious wood pigeon – I’m beginning to wonder whether they’re slightly deaf. Certainly, regardless of how often I hissed at the jackdaws, scattering them into the skies, whereas the starlings and blackbirds lifted off as far as the nearest reasonable perch, returning to eat before the jackdaws had got over the school roof, the wood pigeon just occasionally lifted its head to blink slightly at the empty lawn around it.
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