All's well that ends well for a pair of Bullfinches this evening in my garden. He is a lazy bird though!

 Around 20:10 hr this evening it was a delight to spot a pair of bullfinches.  They have been here for some weeks but this has been the first chance for a picture.  The male is perched, top left on the vegetable cage.
The female was hunting around under a courgette plant.

 He didn't budge whilst she somehow got into the metal cage protecting lettuces from....birds!

 My heart sank.  How will she get out?  Will I need to lift the cage, scaring her for her to escape?

 She is collecting nesting material and fortunately easily got out through chicken wire at the end of the row.

She flew off with the nesting material and the lazy male followed!  Well, what do you know!
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Bird's-nest orchids, Box Hill, Surrey today.

Lacking chlorophyll these orchids live a saprophytic life, here under beech trees.

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 A zoomed picture of the centre of the first picture.

Fox cubs in the garden this morning, West Sussex, UK

 There are THREE cubs seen so far.  And I thought that there were just two.

Strange exotic bird turns out to be a wren carrying dead bracken fronds.

 An exotic looking bird this morning turned out to be a wren struggling with dead bracken.  It has moved into an armour-plated nest box, formerly occupied by Great tits.
Why armoured?  Please see https://sussexrambler.blogspot.com/2016/05/woodpecker-proof-nest-box.html for the gruesome reason.

It is making frequent flights bringing nesting materials.

Foxes this evening in their garden, Cuckfield, West Sussex, UK

 20:15hr and the vixen is suckling two cubs.

 And then going for a walk around her garden with one cub.

 Mind the Speedwell!  It is loved by Red-girdled Mining bees.

 Foxgloves aplenty: very fashionable and appropriate.

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Some more fox cub pictures from West Sussex, UK.

 These first three pictures are from the 15th May 2020

 And the following are from this morning at 05:40hr.  Suddenly the vixen and two cubs appeared, drank from the pond and went back to bed.  Click on any picture to expand it.