This is the wall of the house on the other side of the lane. It’s not lived in and I don’t think it has for years – at least not lived in by humans.
However this wall is FULL of birds. I don’t think I am exaggerating by any means if I say 100s as they nest in there so besides the adults there’s an ever growing number of fledglings.
I guess it’s a good place to nest, they are away from preditors, the wall is sunny in the afternoon so it will be warm, and it’s full of little holes in stone for them. And as the house is empty they are pretty much left undisturbed.
I wonder if all the nests make the house insulated?
As I saw one head back to the wall with beak full of some wool I had been dying, I was a tad concerned that it might look like I had been stuffing bits of coloured fibre into the wall!
We feed them so they do come and peck around our window – which reminded me that if we ever got another cat we’d need to be mindful of the birds and also the lizards that share our space with us!