The weather in Alton has been pretty kind over the last few days. After weeks of poor weather the summer seems to have finally arrived. We're busy indoors at this time of year looking after the guests staying at our B&B but we like to spend as much spare time as we can in our garden. As we have quite a large garden we're often busy working outside to keep the garden looking at it's best. Working outdoors is thirsty work though, so we have plenty of tea breaks! During a tea break one of our favourite occupations is to watch the birds that visit our garden. We like to keep our bird feeders well stocked with a selection of treats to try and encourage a variety of different birds to stop for a snack. Here you can see the bird feeding station in the orchard at the side of the house.
So far this year we have been lucky enough to spot blue tits, chaffinch, yellow wagtails, great tits, gold finch, siskins, yellow hammers, bull finch, long tail tits, green finch, jays, sparrows, herons (not too welcome as we have a fish pond!) pied wagtails, robins, and here you can see a young greater spotted woodpecker that we managed to get a photo of last week. We also seem to have attracted a family of squirrels who take great delight is stealing the bird food when they can get away with it! Oh well we guess even squirrels have to eat!
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