Today it’s a proper summer’s day. Gorgeous wall to wall sunshine & I am stuck indoors after the supermarket shop! But I can still escape & watch the world through my kitchen window. Here in my tiny garden there’s a blackbird, a boy. He’s busy scooping up crumbs. In the top corner of the garden there’s a shadow, a young blackbird. “Dad” pops up & deposits the food store on the grass, then he disappears. It seems we are the bird day care nursery!

It’s fun watching this young bird explore the garden, test the crumbs he’s been left. He’s even ventured to sifting through the soil though I don’t know if he’s too certain of what is treasure & what is worthless in food value!

There’s another bird now on the wall, collecting food. This one is mum, she seems a young, perhaps first time mum. She came yesterday with her youngster. I imagine this is her young bird sat in the corner. She sits quietly, completely still, watching, waiting, but I am uncertain what it is she has seen. Once she has her food, she takes flight across the garden. Clearly this little bird is not her responsibility! While I’m in the kitchen I watch “Dad” blackbird return to his offspring a few times. I wonder how far he goes, does he maintain a watchful eye on junior?