I'm watching you..

[Scrumpy]

 I have a Hazelnut tree that hangs over into my garden.. 
Already she is shedding her leaves..
I watch a squirrel who lives nearby in a very large tree..
It runs along the fence.. stops... eyeballs me .. runs along a wall then jumps into the Hazelnut tree.. 
Sometimes he stops to have a nut or two...dropping the shells wherever it pleases.. Then he returns to his home with a nut firmly in his mouth.. Winters stock..
I watch a pigeon pair come down to have a bath in the big bird bath outside my kitchen window.. 
Sometimes when he is on his own he sits in the bath and soaks for a while.. They never bathe together..

Where are all the garden birds ?.. I have seen an occasional one at the bath, front garden and back.. but very few.. And how silent birdsong has been this summer..
I miss the song of the Blackbird..

[Vlad]

I have stopped feeding the birds during the summer, but still get blackbirds, pigeons and sparrows in the bird bath.