Multi-story bird feeder

So today we made it to Wallington Hall and Gardens. And it was worth the wait and the second journey.

First the house, which I kind of enjoyed, the home of the Trevellyan family until given over to the National Trust in the 1930s. All very interesting but more about artifacts than the people. I would have preferred to know more about the families who lived in the house and their relationships than another painting or piece of pottery.

They sounded very interesting people, despite inheriting wealth they were socialists, which upset many people around these parts.

The gardens were good too; a mixture of woodland and walled garden. It was in the woodland where we found this hide and saw woodpeckers, gold finches, chaffinches, greenfinches, siskins and bull finches.

The walled garden was quite unlike any walled garden I'd ever known, being entirely devoted to flowers. We caught the end of the tulips and the beginning of the herbaceous borders. Very good.

Back to a lovely supper of cold cuts, salads and potatoes and a huge variety of desserts on our last night at Eslington.