Wildlife

Jingle you've obviously enticed my bats away! Send them back immediately or I'll set Spider-Man on you!

I haven't seen any bats for several years now. They went when the council felled the pine trees at the back of our house. We have plenty of coal and blue tits. Long tailed tits come round regularly but no great tits, I gather they've been decimated by a virus. I haven't seen the robin since the babies fledged last month.
There are song and Mistle thrushes around and chaffinches and gold finches, but they don't come in the garden. Once our grapes are ripe I expect to inundated with every blackbird in Berkshire!

Hopefully, the birds will be back in the winter when food supplies are not so plentiful in the big wide world.

I happened to look out of the bedroom window about 4 am a few weeks back, and there must have been about ten bats swooping round the corner of the house. I was horrified! (I don't like bats) (I hope they don't live in our roof space and were just arriving home for the day)