When inspecting the Torridon cottage earlier in the week, Gail noticed that a blackbird family has taken advantage of a hole the builder recently made in the back wall (as a precursor to installing a new window there).
Meanwhile, in the surrounding fields, spring lambs are arriving thick and fast.
She has asked the builder to delay enlarging this hole until after the blackbird chicks have flown the nest.
Gail has long been hoping that I would follow the pattern set by my predecessor Hamish the Westie, and lose interest in chasing sheep and lambs as I got older.
Now why would she imagine that might happen...
So I am only allowed to roam off-lead in sheep-free areas of Torridon.
Happy Nature Friday friends, and thank you so much to our lovely LLB Gang friends for continuing to host the blog hop!
oh we love the nest... and we wish the little black berds all da best...
ReplyDeleteWe've got baby bunnies and ducklings here.
ReplyDeleteWhat a creative spot for Mrs Blackbird's nest. We love both babies!
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteOMD, Bertie lad - that is blessing to the cottage to have this nest (how beautifully built it is!) and hoorah for letting the nestlings fledge before completion of your own building project. Golly, what a bright sunny time you had in the NW! Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
What a cosy nest the Mama blackbird has built for her babies.
ReplyDeleteOh Bertie, you are a naughty boy if you chase the sheep and lambs. Even I know better than to do that , and I've never even seen a sheep!
Love,
Inca xx
Bertie what a lovely little family...and so very kind of Gail to let them remain rent free until the fly the coop.
ReplyDeleteAs for running, Gail might have had a metal lapse in the dash you took on the train platform. Which of course set the tone for you most energetic WFT trait. See Bertie run.
Hugs Cecilia
Aww, what sweet blackbird babies!
ReplyDeletePrecious baby birds and precious baby lamb.. good job Mama for telling the workers to wait awhile. Run Bertie Run, we know you love to. Mama will just have find more places without sheep to chase, and I know she will and has
ReplyDeleteAaaaawwww, what a beautiful little nest of birdies!
ReplyDeleteLike you with sheep and lambs Bertie, I don't think we would EVER grow out of chasing birdies!
xoxo,
Rosy, Jakey, Arty & Sunny
How cute that you have your own little bird family. It looks like you're enjoying your time at the cottage even if you do have to be on leash some times.
ReplyDeleteIt's always fun to see the baby birdies in Spring!
ReplyDeleteI am guessing that birdie is Hamish saying welcome to the cottage.
ReplyDeleteBabies everywhere! Baby birds and baby sheep! Such cuteness---but nothing is as cute as YOU Bertie!
ReplyDeleteRosie and Redford