Spring Cleaning

                                                                                                                     Pied Wagtail by Jo Sinclair

Garden birds are delicately spring cleaning. Fluttering at windows and dipping into dusty corners like Walt Disney animations, they remove spider webs as material for their nests. Goldcrests use gossamer threads to suspend a tiny cup at the tip of a branch. The cobweb and lichen-tiled dome made by long tailed tits is said to be lined with two thousand feathers, and takes more than a week to build.

Pied wagtails have been flitting about on my roof for several weeks now. A female is busy combing my lawn for blades of dry grass and dog hairs. I can't see her chosen spot, but wonder if it might be under the solar panels.

                                                                                                                                                                                                         Pied wagtail photos by Jo Sinclair