I got home early from work and sat down to eat a late lunch when I notied a large presence on the nut feeder. Usually they are smothered in yellow breasted blue tits but this time there was a long beaked large bird and when I looked properly I realised it was a great spotted woodpecker. It was hammering away at the nuts and five minutes later, when I ws still thrilled to have a sighting of one of them, it was joined by another larger one. They had a feeder each and made light work of the nuts,not more than twenty feet away from my comfortable vantage point.
I could only tell Luke about them and hope they would return the next day however that night, as I was closing up the chickens I had a black blur whizz past my head and lo and behold, it was a teeny bat. This little chap stayed around long enough for me to holler to Luke to see it.
Having laughed at how it flapped up and down over the trees we both took a deep breath of that long summer evening and congratulated ourselves on how lucky we are to live here. It is simply bliss!
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