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Returning to the Garden

I am now regularly seeing a couple of blue tits in the garden as well as the dunnock and robin. Small amounts of food have been taken including a reasonable amount of nyjer seed. It seems that the goldfinches must check that my car isn't outside before coming to the feeder!

There are decent numbers of crows and rooks in the fields but hardly any starlings around at the moment and certainly no starlings or sparrows coming into the garden yet. Although the weather is more autumnal now we have only had a couple of mild frosts and I saw a flowers on a bramble today.

I'll probably start buying feed again this week. A "no mess" feeder mix for a change and some fat bars and a softbill mix for the ground tray. I am thinking of adding a feeder to one of the quince trees in the front of the house so I can see it from the kitchen but I will think about that in detail with the second seed order of the season.

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