Tweet

While collected trolley 238 of the previous post, I heard a tremendous tweeting overhead. Looked up to see nothing, but eventually I realised that there were lots of what looked like great tits nesting in the eaves, that is to say in the dark stripe running up the front of the fascia assembly in the right hand detail left.

The corrugated panels ran into the fascia, providing nice neat nesting boxes.

Not able to snap from a better angle because of the position of the sun - so no heads of birds visible left, even under full zoom of the 5Mb of snap on this desktop. And to think that when I started out at the Census Office, 5Mb was a great deal of data.

PS: a couple of days later I happened to go past this building again. The building, something to do with the Post Office, was open for business and the tweeting was not so loud. But there were some great tits and the odd starling in the neighbouring bushes - and a lot of sparrows, birds which can herd in quite large numbers. So perhaps most of the original tweeting was sparrows?

Furthermore, I can't think now what I was thinking of before. The roosting is where the corrugated panels meet the wall, not where they meet the fascia. That is to say, the left hand side of the diagonal stripe running bottom left to top right in the middle section of the snap left.

If you look carefully, perhaps clicking to enlarge, the head of a bird, more like that of a great tit than that of a sparrow, can be seen peering out of the fifth opening from the bottom.