More tits at last

Having felt a little better yesterday, I went down to the park with my nets. I set up as usual plus one in front of the single feeder. It was only to be a 'middle of the day' trip, from about 10 until 2-ish.

The net runs from the pole (centre) to the right (behind the Elder bush)

Anyway, it seems some of the local tits have found it already (2 days) but it's probably just as well, because all of them were not as fat as the ones at Jenny's garden, where there are feeders 365. Hopefully they will put on the extra 1-2 grams in the coming month and do some catching up.

The park holds a large number of breeding pairs of both Blue and Great. In winter (between the full moult and the pre-breeding moult) many of them skip the area and move into the local gardens where people put out food for the birds. I have even had them in my garden, which is about 3 km as the crow flies.

 A well grown but young Hedgehog 07-09-09

Also had a fairly rare sighting of a Hedgehog, even though we know that they live permanently in the park.

Easterly winds, our first of the autumn, are promised for the rest of the week and all next week, so I shall be out hoping for that "eastern vagrant" to fall into one of my nets. Perhaps another 'new for county' record?