Cause For Joy and Other Birds

Joy! Oh unfathomable joy! Daughter is returned to Us. We all celebrated with steak last night. Lots and lots of it. Even He didn't finish His piece, and I tried hard to help Him out but She put it in the fridge before I could get to it. With luck He will forget to shut the door properly this morning and I shall hook it out with a delicate claw. (Tried that once with some cream but it tasted nasty and hairy when it had been on the carpet.) They also celebrated with some scrumpy cider. Rather too much of that too I think. They were mumbling words like 'Cheddared' and 'Oops-a-Daisy' as They all tried to leave the kitchen at the same time.

'Tis amazing but the blackbirds have produced a third brood. The 2 babies are following mum around and pecking (indiscriminately) at apples and anything else they find on the grass.

One of the chickens has discovered the white grapes on the vines by their pen. He feeds the silly birds each morning and 2 are quite happy to eat what He gives them but the biggest one nips between His legs and gobbles as many grapes as it can reach. This morning it had to jump quite high. Jumped even higher when He threw an old courgette.