To the north of me there is only one house and fields. The house has been empty for some time but the owner came by a couple of weeks ago and started a mass tidying up. The Nightingale moved on :-(
Now for some inexplicable reason a pair of normally shy Subalpine Warblers have decided to build a nest in a Bougainvillea about a foot from my back door. If they had bothered to tell me, I wouldn't have started to rake off dead bracts in the dark. It was only when I did this that I realised the nest was there. The bird flew out in panic and either I or she knocked at least one egg onto the floor. I will inspect fully tomorrow to see if there are other smashed eggs around. If they do decide to persevere and lay a full clutch it means that I will have no natural light in the bathroom for the duration as I won't be able to open the shutter. I'll also have to tiptoe gently when coming and going from the house.