Baby Birds

I love this time of year as everything springs to life, this year blue tits have nested somewhere roundabouts and I can hear their calls all day. The chicks have now fledged but mum and dad are still feeding them away from the nest. Although there should be plenty of food about at this time of year in the form of bugs and caterpillars I still choose to feed the wild birds peanuts and seed regularly. Really it's more for the parent birds than the youngsters as all that flying about looking after chick really takes it's tole so they need a quick place for a easy meal.

The chicks have been out and about for nearly a week now so the parents have brought them to the feeders too. I always make sure there's water for them too. Baby blue tits once fledged are the same size as the parents but have a yellow face rather than white, mum and dad look rather bedraggled now as they put all their energy into their chicks.

This is mum/dad and baby, you can see the parent's looking a bit un-kept. 

Oh and here's a coal tit who prefers seed to peanuts, it's always good to have a variety of food out, the collared doves love seed too. 

If you do have a garden no matter how big or small buy one of these feeders for under £20 from B&M or The Range, once the birds get used to it it's lovely to watch, and you may even get a squirrel.