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I can't quite believe it but today I've seen a blackbird and a bluetit picking at the pile of moss we raked out from the lawn last week-end. Surely they're not nest building already? The last couple of days have been so mild that I'm frightened they've been fooled into thinking it's already spring.

Dear Primrose, they certainly are, today i have seen a blackbird and a starling carrying nest building material.
This weather can't stay as mild as this, can it.

Yep, we're all doomed..bang goes my hedge laying...

Where's Mr Mannering then.......?

In Bushy Park SW London - a pair of Egyptian Geese with some very young goslings - I do hope they will survive.

Who's Mr Mannering?

Oh dear - you're obviously a young thing then......

Mr Mannering was a character in a comedy programme about the second world war.

He was always saying...... "don't panic" and "we're all doomed" and similar.

Tigger, shame on you.

It was Corporal Jones who used to run around saying "don't panic" and Frazer (the Scottish undertaker) who was always saying "we're all doomed".

Captain Mainwaring was resonably sensible compared to the rest of them.

The birds in my garden don't seem to be nesting yet.

The pigeons are interested in each other though. Mind you, they usually are!
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Granny

One of my clients has two dogs, a lurcher and a floor mop (and a lovely floor mop it is too....)
and because the lurcher sees fit to disembowel the soft cuddly toys that it's bought, I retrieve the innards and bring them home for my garden birds to make nests with. Brilliant! and Trousers saw birds last week taking some from the hanging basket that I put it all in......so I reckon they ARE nest building.

Theres an old cottage opposite to where i live, and the starlings have been taking large quantities of nest building material into the roof for two weeks now, the cottage owners won't have to pay to have their roof insulation topped up, that is for sure.