Family visit: but watch out: there's a Hobby about!

As is usual at this time of year, several hen pheasants bring their broods to the garden for a pre-roost feed: today there have been two little families (of two and five chicks respectively)

Overhead, though, Buzzards, Kestrels, Sparrowhawks and Hobbies are ever-vigilant. (I don't know that a Hobby would actually take a pheasant chick, but this one seemed interested!)

The pretty little bantam seems to have adopted us: it has taken to roosting on top of a ceanothus bush every night!