You're right to call out the failings and the influence of fossil fuel lobbying but can we also celebrate the people out there fighting for environmental and social justice and what they achieve e.g. forging stronger links between climate and nature? Let's keep them motivated.

Curses, no I don't! I would say about half the size of a standard banana. Actually it is more likely to be a plum or is it that hogs don't eat a lot of fruit?

Hi Anna, this one is actually a male gatekeeper. Great photo!

Very good. Well done Nic!

Do you think Josh has been sniggering quietly to himself all day...?

It is The Snout in fact.

Yes that's right.

I don't think you can. I saw a sparrowhawk take a swift last year that was attracted to the tape lure. I made it drop it and the swift flew off!

You'll have to come over and see them and the colony in full voice now that the young birds are starting to arrive and making a nuisance of themselves trying to get into occupied eaves and being shouted out. Goes well with a glass of wine I find...

Last we had a single bird calling from the eaves in June for the first time. I'm pretty sure there was a pair dueting on the 10th in our roof and my son could hear flapping a calling from his top bunk. Then they went quiet. Have we not passed muster or are they just a bit in and out still?

Is this not a stock dove?

Now that I think about it, that chimney looks more like its convlex...

No hope of future wisdom and understanding of my greenhouse to plant ratio...?

Absolutely. So when they are sealed they are safe from whatever goes on over them, until they emerge next spring?