Mandyworld: The amazing bird life in Dorset

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For Christmas my father-in-law made me a bird table. It is a work of art. I love it and him for making me such a nice present. I love bird tables and my last one got left behind when we moved house so I was very excited to get this one set up and see who came to visit. At this house we have a big mature garden with a stream at the bottom and I have seen loads of pretty birds flitting about so I set up the table just outside the sitting room window and looked forward to seeing what would arrive. It took quite some time for the birds to figure out there was food available and then another week or two for them to build up enough courage to investigate the actual table. Of course the Great Tits were the bravest and they soon gave everyone else the all clear.
Since then I've seen lots of finches, robins, blackbirds, mistlethrush, what I think is a dunnock and of course all the tits.
Now at my last house we had woodpeckers as regular visitors and also nuthatch and long-tailed tits which are all quite unusual. We are quite a lot further south in different countryside now so I was looking forward to seeing something equally exciting and unusual.

And here he is.... The damn thing has taken up residence and just sits there scoffing his face and frightening everything else away. Occasionally he waddles over to the windowsill and smiles at me through the glass before settling down for a nice a sleep. He's not even a nice wood pidgeon, he's just one of those flea-bitten types like you get in Trafalgar Square. His only saving grace is that the munchkin seems rather fond of him as she can get really close to him when he sits on the windowsill. Still I'm thinking of a pie.....

By the way, I found the fish. He was under a peice of bogwood and very dead. I don't know what happened to him but I fancied another one was swimming a bit funny this morning. I'm the worst fishmum ever!

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RIP lickle fishy :|

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