I don´t know the English name of this bird, but it doesn´t matter. Maybe someone can help me with that, but this black and white bird has been our friend and inherent this summer. The couple have lived under the roof, just above our outdoor dinnerplace. Everytime we have been eating, the mother and father have been flying in and out, just above our heads.
One morning at breakfast, one of them was sitting on the back support of a chair near us and chirping. Not the ordinary chirping, this was continuing for at least five minutes. It was just as she or he was talking to us. I started talking back and said, things like: "So your children have come now, they are out from the eggs?".... and so on. We were chatting together for a while.
Later that day, three lovely small birds were crawling around our table. We don´t know how they got out, it is about three meters high, but they were there and the proud parents were coming now and then feeding them. I was afraid that our dog would have hurt them so I put a fence around them. But they just walked out from it and the dog just sat there watching them. So I realised I couldn´t change nature, it is what it is. I´m sure my dog, that usually likes to hunt birds, understood that these small birds were not supposed to be hunted.
The rest of the summer we could see the small birds growing, start flying and hunting there own food and helped us to have less flies and knats.
