Cottage Diary - Aspenwood self catering luxury Holiday Cottage overlooking Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland.

The bird table is a flurry of activity this time of the year and there is always a mixed variety of foods on the menu. Breakfast time is especially busy and the nut feeders hooked under the table are a mass of little colourful bodies gorging themselves. Plenty of blue tits, coal tits, great tits and the other day we had a swarm of long tailed tits for the first time. The chaffinches, greenfinches and siskins appear throughout the day.The robins and blackbirds prefer to dine at the table and love any form of cake, bread and yorkshire pudding scraps. Had a female pheasant searching for food droppings on the ground under the table. She stayed for quite a while and was not frightened of the cat sitting near watching her, in fact the cat was more nervous the closer she got.

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