Countryside living. Getting on a bit. It was only a matter of time before I gave into certain impulses: I’m curious about birdlife. It’s a curiosity that’s at risk of developing into outright geekiness.
It all started with a bird feeder outside the kitchen window – the regular kind, not a bird feeder camera currently on my wishlist. The feeder has enticed all manner of bird families; tits, chaffinches, nuthatches, treecreepers, sparrows, robins, magpies and the occasional Green or Great Spotted Woodpecker. One time I discovered a field mouse helping itself to the seed, though thankfully squirrels seldom come this close to the house.
