The children

A pleasure to see two young dunnocks with no signs (yet) of avian pox.

The jays are noisily present. I actually managed to film a parent feeding this child - which will appear on my YouTube Channel at some point in August. They don't appreciate attention.

The robin babies are also very shy. I think there are still the two, Tiptoe (this one) and Rascal.

The parents are keeping a low profile too - and looking like it's been a long, hard nesting season.

As for the blackbirds, for two mornings there were two of them together. Then I spooked one who was sitting at the bottom of the steps late one night. The next day I only saw one, but I saw it a couple of times so it could have been two. I think so - as the one on the steps was very small and I had the feeling that I saw a smaller and a larger one.

**UPDATE - I have again seen the two together, but I think the one outside was a third who seems younger and follows his mother about in the daytime, rather a baby still and very confused by the big, loud world.