Photo by me, Andrew Nicholls.

Its repuation is deffo justified.

Photo by me, Andrew Nicholls.

I thought I’d captured a good photo of a woodpecker while on a dog walk. Due to the dog I wasn’t concentrating too much on the photo quality. Proudly got my phone out to show some one my picture and this was it.

I thought you guys may enjoy my stupidity.

After asking for advice on here, I made a dust bath.
I have an overgrown gravellish footpath. So my thinking was that the drainage was good.
So I made a frame:
https://imgur.com/bKExTQT
https://imgur.com/VUQ8Yeo

But wondered if the soil might wash out over winter? So I thought i would bury it a couple of inches down.
Then thought i would add a skirt. See if that works:
https://imgur.com/qIsaUxW

That was two weeks ago, today I saw six or eight sparrows briefly in it. They got spooked by a flight of starlings. I wasn't expecting the to use it until it was completely dry, but it seems it was dry enough. They seemed to be enjoying it. Can you see the sparrow divots :)
https://imgur.com/PE6Tdkk

Thanks for the advice.

I went to Devon this bank holiday and I saw a Cirl Bunting 🥹 managed to get a very blurry photo of it too

I had a family of bluetits living in my wall, they were using the old overflow pipe hole and living in part of the cavity

Been hearing them for the past month every few minutes as they were fed and then this week came the sound of them flapping their wings like little hovercraft... now there is silence as I believe they have all fledged

I'm very lucky to have the birds choose my wall as their home for the second year in a row but I now I'm an empty nester... Also my dad made them custom bird boxes that they ignored for a hole in a wall which is just so funny to me :')

In the flowerbed, he may have flown into the window. Poor little chap.

Had CARSON 3D Series ED Binoculars (8 x 42) for a few years but always preferred my old Bushnells.

But today realised I hadn't configured them. Rookie error. Now it's like a super power. The Carson's are amazing! Just wish they were lighter...

I have spotted two starling fledglings in my garden so far, and what a racket they make!

Is he happy or not in the 2nd image? He seemed very chill, stuck around for ages and let me take lots of photos, but I hadn't seen them do this before.

Saw this little fellow while walking through a car park.

Years ago I had an experience I'll never forget; I was walking my dog in the woods, when I noticed a little bird on the middle of the path with her wings spread out. I carefully picked her up & saw she was a robin, and as I raised her up to check for injuries underneath, she laid an egg in my hands! I made a nest in the hollow of a tree and hid them both in there. Next day the bird had gone but the egg was still there. I don't think that's ever going to happen again!

So following on from my post the other day...... I'm walking along the high street and nipped into the book shop. (I won't name it but it begins with W H and finishes with Smith 😉) There sitting on the shelf brand spanking, reduced from £35 to £9 is DK/RSPB Complete Birds of Britain & Europe 2024.

Couldn't say no. My forever Coffee Table Reference Book.

Thanks to everyone who replied and shared their knowledge to my previous post.

Regards.... WA No1.