Feeding Time

I wasted spent a lot of time looking through the kitchen window at the goings-on in the bird feeder this morning. It was raining and the sparrows, as usual, were hogging the feed and the tits were having to make lightning strikes to grab a nut in between their foraging. One smart parent got these 2 chicks to wait patiently under cover while they hunted some tasty morsels from outside (see extras). The bubs were a lot better at eating than flying. They were so funny when they took off and crash landed in the little tree next to the feeder and fell from branch to branch to the ground.