Snakes Alive!
I have a few sparrow nest boxes up around the house and both male and female House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) are fully occupied with nest building now – they have stripped next door’s pampas grass (I knew it was useful for something!) and have also taken some the young leaves of a Rowan I have in the garden. It’s good to see them back in numbers now as a few years ago they were quite scarce garden visitors.
I was really pleased to see a male adder (Vipera berus)on the Forest yesterday afternoon basking on a sunny bank under some Gorse. This is an ideal spot for them and I have been looking for some since it starts to warm up in March and they get active.