Expected and unexpected visitors

Yep: the crows now shout at me from my TV aerial. I threw some peanuts onto the conservatory roof and though this one refused to fly down, the following day, they flew over, eyed me, landed on the aerial and then - I was at the back of the garden - seemed to fly down. Maybe they'll become regulars.

I still leave fox food, which disappears, and last night, vocal evidence of a vixen.

What was amazing about this was that I walked back to the kitchen table, and suddenly saw Buji go on alert: he was watching. They'd heard the fox and been confused, but now I could tell he was seeing - but he was seeing through the reflective glass of the kitchen door and the conservatory!

A jay has been visiting.

This one was shouting. I started whistling and thought that the bird responded. He did look at me and seem interested. Then I clicked my tongue and he flew straight to me! But when he saw what I was, human, he fled!

Far more astonishingly, a HERON flew over the garden this morning. There are plenty of herons about, but I've never seen one fly over here. A gull was chasing it and the heron screeched and was trying to evade the mobbing gull.

I am still devoted to the dear dunnocks.

And this blue tit, surely my old pal Mohican Blue, always perches above me.

One of the male blackbirds has become brave.