The Cottage Smallholder

Funny thing, despite repeatedly hanging out the fatballs, our birds are not interested and they end up being thrown - yet in France we have flocks of sparrows, blue tits and great tits attacking the fatballs - like you Tina, I have to keep buying them. Sadly, not in here in the UK.

Last week, and driving through Marlborough, we were amongst a group of cars going in a westerly direction, but no cars in the opposite direction, when suddenly a red kite swooped down to retrieve something from the other side of the road. It's size and colour was incredible to see close-up. 

While visiting our son on the outskirts of Reading, there are so many kites, they are often circling just above his garden, although we've been told that some people are actually feeding them, as in Buckinghamshire, too, where you can see plenty in the sky. It's good to see them in such numbers again.