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Still Not Much

The garden is still very quiet. After a few wet days and frosty nights it was clear and sunny today. There was a good turn out from the ground feeders with pairs of dunnock, robin, blackbird and wood pigeon. One robin also decided to take fat from the starling feeder but rather than perching on it he hovered like a rather cumbersome humming bird to pluck a piece before flying away. This was repleated several times.

A pair of blue tits also came to the feeders and a solitary hen chaffinch was on the ground under them. The starlings haven't discovered the fat feeder yet and I only saw one today, perched in the tree at the bottom of the garden.

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