CHURCH SERVICES
Palm Sunday (Sunday), 10am, holy communion, Charwelton church with no service at Preston Capes.
MOBILE LIBRARY
Will be visiting Little Preston on Tuesday at 1.55pm and then Church Way, Preston Capes, at 2.30pm.
VILLAGE FETE
A fete volunteers meeting will be held in the village hall on Tuesday at 7.45pm. Please come along and give your support to the committee – helpers are needed to ensure the success of this fundraising event.
BOB'S NATURE NOTES FOR MARCH
A very good start to the month – we had a tree creeper at the front and rear garden feeders, and it continued to visit to the end of the month. Also visiting our feeders were male and female blackcaps.
Reed buntings are about on most of my walks now, plus also flyovers of ravens. There is a blackbird building a nest in the conifers north of our back garden and, as I wrote last month, we still have long-tailed tits visiting us in good numbers. All the corvids (crow families) are either building or repairing their nests for the season.
The robins are feeding one another now and the dunnocks are courting well. The skylarks are still singing well, but the fields are not in very good condition to tempt them to start breeding.
I saw two tree sparrows in the last week, and we opened the back door on Friday, March 27, to hear a chiffchaff singing in the rear garden. I hope now to hear the willow warbler very soon.
The roe deer are not seen as much now, but badgers and foxes are seen most weeks. Muntjac are about most days and one of them comes and helps itself to my front feeder most nights (waking my dog) and I can trace its slots on its regular path most mornings.