This is a tree sparrow. Different to the house sparrow, note the brown head and cheek markings. Suppposed to be on the rarity list - but not round here. Chestnut Johnnies was one description from one of our senior locals. Anyway, twas one of these who fought off the blue tit to take over the nest box wherein is the camera. Which then sends pictures to my t.v. Unfortunately the nesting habit of these is that there is such a mound of (duck) feathers we cannot see what is in the nest. Unlike the blue tits last year where we saw the eggs, the hatching, the feeding, the fledging(?) This time round all I can see are feathers. Underneath are presumably eggs, possibly naked chicks, and occasionally a tree sparrow crashes in and feeds or sits and all underneath the feathers. Hopefully at some stage we will see what is going on. Would be nice. Our other piece of new technology is purely Mike's domain. It is a bat detector. According to him it is very successfull. We havent got any.
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