Some Local Wildlife

Courtesy partly of the oak tree that sits just beyond our front fence, plus the recent installation of a bird feeder in our front garden, we get quite a variety of bird life here. 

Crows,

Lots and lots of woodpigeons

Jays! (Not blue jays as per the OH's baseball team, but even so.)They're very pretty and we get a pair visiting every morning

There's a robin as well which we haven't managed to photograph yet, and some other, so far unidentified, small birds that are visiting the feeder. 

As is the squirrel!

Many thanks to the OH for a fabulous photo. Again we have  a pair, but rarely see the second one. This one though is often around, especially during the mornings when he scampers about at great speed, stopping every now and then to retrieve and nibble at a nut. Great fun to watch. 

And occasionally we are visited by some local roe deer. I've yet to manage a good picture of these; the first time they came by  the time we had seen them and I'd found my phone all I got a picture of was their fleeing rear ends! The second time I did rather better, although the pictures are far from perfect. Still they're lovely to see, and not exactly what you expect on a suburban estate, even on the fringes.