Here’s the recording, as promised. You all deserve a medal for watching a timber post and a doormat for twenty minutes - but it was worth it, wasn’t it? That little bird’s face…..
Thank you so much for your patience - I can’t believe how many of you hung on in there for the appearance of the bird - which I’d appreciate a firm ID of by the way, please! Of course it came back after I’d finished, and I managed to take a close-up photo - below.
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I hope you enjoyed the Tiptoe Through the Tulips too. The ‘scented meadow’ gets better and better:
And here’s that very, very special tulip which is now making its appearance in this area of what is basically long grass with lots of bulbs: