I decided we should get a bird feeder. You know something you can put unsalted peanuts into and watch tits and sparrows hang off it at all angles whilst getting a bite to eat. We had a look in a few shops including the local pet shop and couldn’t find one. In the end we found a feeder in Euro Pris that took golf sized balls of bird feed. “That’ll do” we said and put it in our shopping basket.

I hung the feeder up outside the door from the living room into the garden. It took a few hours for the local bird population to find it and start pecking away at the feed. The birds now come all day and are a source of great amusement to us.

Most prevelent are tits of various types. We get Great Tits, and smaller tits which are probably Coal, Marsh and Willow tits. We’ve also seen sparrows, woodpeckers and the occasional cheeky magpie hanging off the feeder. Here are some of the better pictures I have taken.

“What, where?”

“It’s mine, all mine!”

“No, it’s mine!”

“Now if I could just get a bit closer to that tasty morsel”

“Hmmm, this is much tastier than bark”