The Acorn Trail

A Dunnock at my table…. Actually, on the window ledge waiting its turn after the Sparrow had finished feeding. My appearance alerted both so not officially (witnessed) on my table yet.

The Sparrow, from the only Sparrow family in the courtyard and has been the only family for a good few years now, a more regular visitor now than I’ve ever seen, a brief glimpse twice in 18 months, and now I’ve see him every day on the table over the last couple of weeks.

The Starlings although about in the area, stopped visiting when the mealworm ran out, a deliberate ploy on my part, to give the Robins carte blanche.

The Robins I’m afraid I haven’t seen for about three weeks either on the feeder or in the courtyard, I’m not sure what happened there, but I think the Starlings presence had something to do with it.

On a much lighter note, great news, the Blue tits have had a brood, two fledglings who’ve been brought to the feeder a couple of times (that I‘ve seen) by both parents, who I’ve watched work tirelessly to open up the sunflower seeds to feed the fledglings, all four have been at my window-feeder at the same time and on my ledge and window frames getting fed by the parents, and incredible sight.

Unfortunately I don’t have any real coverage of the above, my camera is broken and has been for about 10 weeks now, plus my time has been devoted to other projects over the last 6 months and that is and will continue to be the case. Any of the above is chance sightings when I’m needed in the kitchen where the window-feeder is located.

I’ll continue to post when I can, and if I (hopefully) get camera equipment, I’ll be able get some photos on my days off, if I get any days off!
The website redesign has had to be put on hold also, the current design was always going to be a place holder till maybe I went .org, or purchased a design tailored to my needs, I think that will come in the future when I can give this more time, and will be possibly part of my job.

Ok, I do have this picture taken with my mobile phone, when one of the fledlings camped on my window ledge whilst I was sat at my computer, any of my Twitter followers will know this as I tweeted whilst the little chap/chap-et was on the ledge.

I also managed to get a bit of video with my mobile phone of him/her on the ledge, here.  And some of them getting fed at the feeder, here.   I think you can see (barely… low res!) this matches the explination above.