Love on the Balcony.

I film the birds that visit my feeder. Filming them is the easy part. The hard part is going through hours of footage to find something interesting enough to edit, post to YouTube, and put on the blog. There’s only so much you can do with hours of siskins squabbling amongst themselves. Of course, what I find interesting and what the reader finds interesting may be two entirely different things. That said, it’s my blog, so… you know. The first thing I should say is that I’m no expert. I’m just a 71-year-old bloke with a bird feeder on his balcony. A hawfinch turned up the other day for the first time and I had to look it up on iNaturalist to work out what it was. For a brief moment, I thought I’d discovered some sort of alpine parrot. So what follows may be complete nonsense. The “Attenborough Moment”Yesterday I had what I can only describe as a David Attenborough moment involving two Cyanistes caeruleus, also known as Blue Tits. One of them, who I’m assuming was the female, arrived…