Claire's blog

Spent the day in Patchings preparing for the Festival. The marquees are going up now, and everyone is getting very excited. The chicks are still getting larger (and still eating non-stop), we can now hear them cheeping quite clearly.

The nest box is in a laburnum tree just outside the studio at Patchings, so we can watch the poor parents flying in and out as they frantically try and keep the beaks full. You should be able to see the nest box in this picture, along with a lot of bird feeders (mostly currently empty as Dad is in India so hasn’t been topping them up once a week).