Swift Half update - 6th March 2011

• SWIFT HALF IS TWO YEARS OLD!!! (Anna and I have lived here now for two years).
• Quite a few daffs up in the garden now.
• Pear tree buds looking very healthy - and damson tree buds coming on.
• Newts still doing well in pond.
• First pond skater of the year today.
• Blue tits busy nesting (or beginning to) in eaves at front of house.
• Black birds nesting in ivy in front garden AND rear garden. Doomed though I'm afraid thanks to the spostles.
• All hens fighting fit and laying one egg a day. Great to see Couven at her best again....

• Jays still around. (see photo above -click twice to see LARGE)
• Three woodpeckers still around (two males and a female). Males drumming for a fortnight now.