Great Tit

We had a very busy Great Tit searching for food in the garden this evening. He or she made many visits and had the same routine each time: it landed on or near the fence, dropped down behind the child-sized bench and searched around the shrub border, found some food, flew onto the arm of the bench, prepared the food and then flew off with it to a nest box in a neighbouring garden. I couldn't work out what the food source was, so once the bird had been absent for a while, I popped out to have a look - it was finding sunflower seeds and shelling them - but I have no idea where the sunflower seeds actually are! I can only assume they are buried/hidden stash (from the winter, maybe?).

Male Chaffinch in the evening sun

We had a trip to the Farne Islands booked for tomorrow but as the weather has been so bad (and I have a stinking cold) we have decided to postpone it. We're going to leave it for a while and instead go when we have a chance to see some nestlings - probably the beginning of July.