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Nesting

There must be a pair of chaffinches nesting nearby as a cock bird has become a regular visitor to the feeders taking both fat and sunflower seeds. The goldfinches are still showing up occasionaly for the sunflower seeds as well.

I think a pair of blackbirds are nesting in my neighbour's leylandii hedge, judging by their behaviour probably in the bit overhanging my garden that I was hoping to trim now that the weather has improved!

Just for once the robins aren't fighting. There were two in the garden a day or two ago, one on the feeder and one on the rockery. The one on the feeder flew down to the rockery and presented his (?) mate with a tit-bit from the fat bars. I saw him do this again a little later.

In the garden the celandine is now out and the daffodils are just starting to bloom, always a little late in the rather exposed position on the 500 foot contour.

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