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
Into the urn (after a lot of pretending that
wasn't its destination)
wasn't its destination)
and out again with a faecal sac
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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