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[jaypo]

It was all drama here today,one of our feeders has chicken wire around the base,was to stop starlings emptying them but the little birds can still go in through the top,anyway looked out the window and here was a sparrow hawk hanging off the feeder,so we rushed outside thinking it had its foot stuck,but it just let go and hopped onto a branch,we looked at it for a while and it just sat there,went inside and here it was again hanging off the feeder,then I noticed a little bird IN the feeder,it was protected by the chicken wire,rushed outside again and shooed the hawk away,then had to tip the feeder on its side so the tiny little chaffinch could get out. Phew!! NEVER have I seen hawks here before,let alone right at our window 

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Hawk was't going to give up then!

There's been 1 in our front hazelnut tree regularly in recent weeks.

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A robin is singing out side the kitchen window, wren is chattering at the neighbours' kitten 

[jaypo]

Nope ,seen it nearly every day,it hops on to the tree where the feeders are and just watches,blimmin thing. I'm loving watching the agile little birds catching insects in mid air 

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Spotted fly catchers do that, we spent hours watching when we stayed near Hadrian's Wall 

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Two green and red shield bugs getting it together for several hours earlier on our raspberry canes  - gone now ;-) Probably didn't like being watched 

Wren nagging the neighbours' kitten who is hiding in our wooden pergola behind the honeysuckle - hopefully the sparrow hawk doesn't take a detour as it often does! 

[jaypo]

Our sparrow hawk is a regular visitor now,bold as brass sitting on the tree,I'm shooshing it away now

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Probably feeding nestlings.  Kitten is still on the pergola.

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The mason/solitary bees are buzzing round the 'hotels'