…My garden leaves an awful lot to be desired at the moment. It’s practically a nature reserve the way I have left it to it’s own devices with wild elderflower and strawberries and blackberries to boot! Anyways, this morning whilst I munched on my cornflakes I spied out of the kitchen window to see what was making all the noise as there was a constant alarming bird chirping away!

It turns out upon closer inspection that “mother” blackbird pictured here>

Clearly showing here crested war wounds of a previous scuffle with next doors cat, had spotted said feline snoozing right by the side door to my garage, inside which mother blackbird and her partner “Butch-Black” as I call him pictured here >>

Have decided to nest, judging by his gobfull above, it would appear that I am unofficially a Blackbird grandparent and there are currently little blackbird chucks clucking away in there for their breakfast; mother blackbird was very brave distracting the dis-interested snoozing feline from next door while daddy flew in to feed the little ones!

This was so fascinating it almost made me late for work this morning, which I managed to do by walking for a change (all part of my new exercise regime) and yes I even fit in a workout this morning too!!