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We spent a lot of time over the winter feeding the birds, essential for them as I've blogged before when they need to eat 25% of their body weight daily in cold weather. The implied deal is that we'll feed them over the winter and then they'll help us for the rest of the year by eating greenfly and caterpillars from the garden. We've put up several nest boxes to encourage them to stay around but up to this year they've not been used. This year there are two families successfully nesting, one of them in the nest box mounted outside the window on the upstairs corridor. The parents are working hard constantly flying backwards and forwards feeding the young:
I'll keep a watch out for when the youngsters fly and shut the cats in and try and get some more pictures.
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