Large detached house in sought-after location...

Well this is a very picturesque bird house! I can take a photo of a bird house - but a bird... no chance. Whenever I try, before I've even laid hands on my camera, the bird has gone. Then the other morning, I saw the 'perfect' shot - a blackbird on the thin upper branches of a mini apple tree, silhouetted against a white early morning sky, amongst lovely bright red mini apples. Black and white with touches of red - and the bird sat there for ages looking at me and Alfred, just a couple of metres away, and guess what... I didn't have my camera! Still I'll keep trying. In the meantime, here's a nice bird house :-)