Last week we were having dinner on the apéro terrasse (as you do) when I said to Susan "I am sure I just saw a sparrow fly into the urn". I wasn't sure: it seemed like such an improbable idea.
It wasn't a sparrow, it was a great tit, and it's a pair with a nest in which the chicks have already hatched. Some careful staking out of the back garden produced this evidence:
It's difficult to say for sure, but I think this is
the female returning to the nest with a caterpillar
the female returning to the nest with a caterpillar
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZn8g9eBZjuD97ke9R4znbDBI9a5V6rEwRB4pI_DZY97oJ50OxUks1NfHxPJjQfqg_x8uE75JCMRyBmCfDLBGX4ny2-E1X9ZcgJm4ofnFZadCsmwx3cWyoqgwHnwSFb5X4WV-cQ/s400/bt1.jpg)
Into the urn (after a lot of pretending that
wasn't its destination)
wasn't its destination)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFPi6_RFSlqtxAZwZuGwac3gHo4cl-acU4QFl5Be7ciYLvo8KU9pEuI5G4fAcyxPFsucjLa2MycsJ_ufPv-_K2RM7BiOXla9OhaS8Wb-otaFG-UU4LVdePFi6RZo4YsQHdKV_Jlw/s400/bt2.jpg)
and out again with a faecal sac
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiguIaDqBBAJUz_NeysglD2KmGsxv7JgwrXt7AtmK7cYOuBAe-cX95D7w_gR5sU5ksMpMFkxHbtZHoWyhiasGdjsI_H9ngFeQ8uQPa3MNsvHd39VYtt6yNZwWgpVwjDrHy87itBXg/s400/bt3.jpg)
Simon
4 comments:
Brilliant detective work!
That's what it was - I was supposed to be washing the Maigret car at the time...
Well done you in capturing it all so well on camera!
Nice set, I hope that the urn has no bottom.... else, when it does rain here, they'll get flooded out [or is there some shelter to that funnel shaped neck that isn't showing in the close-up photos.
I think this may well be the male... the black down the front looks as though it extends all the way to the vent [arse]... on the lady it don't!
WV is "sloba".... which is probably what the chicks did when they saw that caterpillar.
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