Three days ago I heard a house sparrow on the gutter of the house opposite mine. Yesterday a cock sparrow was in my rowan tree, which is the first time that I have had one in the garden for more years than I can remember. The wrens in my bat box seem to have raised a brood. I have had bat boxes at two different properties and in both wrens have raised chicks. I have never had a single bat!
Once upon a time you could find me birding on the Thames marshes almost every weekend through the winter. For various reasons I am now seldom able to travel to good birding sites. I am lucky, however, to live in the beautiful Chiltern Hills and this blog is to document the birds that I see on my own patch.