If you are walking around Pony Wood you should hear a greater spotted woodpecker drumming away and a song thrush tuning up.
A better view
Meanwhile we are still putting down seed and gradually moving the table near to the gate to give a better view. We are also scattering seed thinly on the ground to give the smaller birds a better chance.
Regular visitors
We regularly see a robin, blackbirds, chaffinch, blue tit and reed bunting using the feed. In the wood and hedgerow also look out for wren, coal tit, great tit, goldfinch as well as the corvids and wood pigeons.
Heard but not seen
Our bird app (Merlin) has recently picked up nuthatch, chiffchaff and stock dove – it would be good to get a confirmation of these.
Ominous for the little ones
Further away and more ominous for the little ones – a sparrow hawk on the gate into the field opposite the bridge into Haverbreaks.