The birds and the bees!

Last week was all about the birds and bees! First we found a baby blackbird in the lane and couldn't find the nest to put him back in again. We had to leave in another part of the hedge, it was very sad....... Then the same day we discovered honey bees trying to start a nest behind the weatherboarding on our house. We stuffed newspaper in the hole and spoke to a beekeeper who said they were only scouts and would get fed up and go away. So after a few days we removed the paper .......big mistake! They came back of course so we had to stuff newspaper there again. Hope they've got the message this time. Then on Sunday we had the most wonderful view in our garden of a hen pheasant with her eleven chicks! They spent all morning running around the lawn and pecking at everything in sight - they were gorgeous - not sure how old they were as they were fully fledged, but tiny! Haven't seen them again since but we did feel privileged to see catch a glimpse of them.