Some birds just won’t share……

Yet more weather changes in the last week, with heavy frosts making way for more spring-like conditions.  With great tits now singing – a very spring-like sound – it’s easy to forget that it’s only the end of January!  With no thrushes evident here yet, a bird that recently made my day by singing from the top of the hedge outside my office window, was a wren.  It’s astonishing that a bird this small can make such a sound!  We always have problems in the spring when wrens choose our front porch for nest construction, in direct competition with the swallows.  Male wrens will create several nests to entice a female and fortunately, so far, the porch nest has never been used.  There is no doubt that the swallows, on their return, would not be very happy as they don’t like to share!