General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I do not put out any food for birds, but still get absolute masses of them in my garden.

I am told that there are both Marsh Tits and Willow Tits, though I cannot tell them apart.

Robins and blackbirds feast on worms when I dig. They will take food from my hand, though not if anyone else is around. Which is good: I would not want them to lose their caution.

I do get a lot of midges. Don't know why, but they will be feeding some of the birds. Also, a few weeks to go yet, but they usually get a far larger proportion of my strawberry crop than do humans. Later in the year, the Rowan Berries cause the trees to be festooned with birds of many varieties.

One location in my garden frequently sprouts really exotic weeds from seed dropped by birds, whether from beak, or having passed through their digestive tract - I do not know.

Sometimes I have found it very difficult to identify them and occasionally they have been of a genus or variety not commonly growing in UK.

I also have a number of roses and hollies courtesy of these visiting birds.