Rainy Days

A couple of rainy days has resulted in a slight increase in the activity in the garden this week. Fourteen species have so far been recorded (only eleven were recorded in total last week), but my favourites, the Blue Tits, are still busy elsewhere it seems!I have brought the bird table out from hiding - it hasn't been in use much since we moved here twelve months ago due to the lack of level ground to stand it on. So anyway, I decided to give the birds, and me, a change and I have placed it over the hole where the rotary washing line should be (the hole is in a slab which makes part of the path). Obviously this means I can't hang any washing out. Shame ;o). It wasn't there earlier as I didn't want to put the table too close to the bird box, but that is empty anyway!

A Great Tit pays a visit to the table
As does a Siskin (table has since been dusted!)
Another Siskin on one of the hanging feeders
Male House Sparrow collects sheep's wool for his nest. He doesn't seem to mind that it's wet!

It's not very often the Sparrows come to this feeder (the Chaffs and Greens hold the monopoly)

I always manage to focus on the feeder rather than the bird when they perch here