Unhappy Birds

One of the things I forgot to do before the storm was take the bird table off the post. That'll be an oops then. The wind did it for me. In fact the whole base was torn apart. I've put the structure back below the post for the photo but it was actually blown as far as the far edge of the garden where the fence stopped it careering down to the sea. The next base will be stronger! However what is both upsetting and amusing is that the birds just can't work out what has happened. They keep going to their usual perches away from the bird table and then flying to it as if it were there and just looking very confused. 

A New Bird Table

On Monday I decided to clean the bird table using the pressure washer so that any muck and so on that could harbour disease would be cleaned off and sterilised.  Anyway without going into details the old bird table is no more.  So yesterday I made a new one.  I can't have my birds without food over the winter.  I think it's rather smart!  The birds were on it as I was fixing it to the post.  No familiarisation period needed here then!