Nesting: jackdaws, starlings and seagulls

I'm not sure if I've ever seen a jackdaw before - but there are two hopping slowly about the chimney pots and aerials on the roofs of the houses opposite.  There are also a couple of pigeons and a starling.  It is odd to see a solitary starling - but that's what its silhoutte suggests it is.  It clearly wants a chimney pot for its own nest and his hopping about looking for nesting materials.  One jackdaw was sitting quietly on an aerial - while the other inspected the chimney pot - and menaced the starling.  Eventually the jackdaws decamped to the next set of pots - as they settled down there a seagull flew in low and they took fright and flew away.  The starling's persistence has been rewarded: he is now in possession of the original pots, and another starling has come to inspect his site.  No doubt in due course my neighbours will be rewarded with a starling nest bunging up their chimney, but this will be fine as long as they don't have a fire for a while.    Meanwhile the seagull has settled in her nest between the eight chimneys further down the terrace - and the jackdaws have flown past - continuing their search.

After the most wet, soggy and grim Easter weekend (apart from Good Friday of course, which is nearly always sunny) today is lovely - thin, high cloud, but nothing too serious.  I might get into the garden and plant a couple of things: Coells brought me a heuchera, a primrose and a sedum.  It the sedum can survive the Gobi desert in the front garden, it will be great... it will just have to take its chances.