One of the things I love about the garden is the bird life - indeed, one of the first things we bought for the garden was a decent bird feeder. It just happens to be positioned so that when you take from the patio door you get a nice out of focus green background...
Its led us to at least one dilemma though - our cats have always been house cats (I used to say "flat cats" because we lived in a flat, but people used to ask what squished them...) and we had planned to let them out following the move. But it doesn't feel right to encourage the birds and then let the cats at them.
This is one of the coconut feeders that William chose from the garden centre last weekend. Seems to mainly attract Starlings but never mind. My main problem is that it keeps reminding me of that scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail...
Here you go... Youtube
[About the photo: Less than ideal as its a dull day and I was shooting with my old D80 which doesn't have particularly good high ISO performance. But the 70-300mm on my D80 gives me an effective focal length of 450mm which is great for getting into the action]
"But then of course, African swallows are non-migratory, so they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway..."
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