Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Thought you'd like a progress report on our new neighbours. They moved in about 6 weeks ago. They now have a family of four with the biggest beaks that you've ever seen. Their parents, who we've Christened Spit and Swallow, never stop. Our garden looks like the holding pattern at Heathrow airport. They are just brilliant parents....they bring in some food, pop it in a beak, then pick up some poo from the bottom of the nest and take it away. Sometimes, the baby birds actually turn around and point their bottoms at the parents, and their parents actually take the poo away as it pops out. Now isn't that clever.