The Leas is rightly, highly valued for it’s superb walks with views towards France over the Channel. I took this photo on my cameraphone, one autumn as the lamp-posts that line the path, were being painted. Obviously, this helps protect them from the elements, and keeps them looking nice, but holidaymakers and strollers are not the only seasonal visitors to appreciate the results of this maintenance programme.

Each spring, happy with the condition of the lamp-posts, several pairs of bluetits have been building there nests inside them. This typically bedraggled-looking parent has just returned with a morsel for the brood.

Having, first, landed on the bracket below…

…it then flies in through the tiny hole in the side…

to deliver the latest food parcel.

Sometimes I’ve seen them fly in one side, and out the other, or perhaps when one parent arrives at the front door, the other flies out the back door for more supplies. In this instance, the parent re-appears at the same hole, hesitates, and checks the coast is clear…

before flying off to hunt for more chick fuel.