If you find yourself being stuck inside during the cold, winter months, with nothing to do, and you need an idea to help shake the winter blues, why not take up a great hobby like making bird houses for Sparrows...

In just such impenetrable retreats as the marsh wrens choose, another wee brown bird may sometimes be seen springing up from among the sedges, singing a few sweet notes as it flies and floats above them, and then suddenly disappearing into the grassy tangle...

A few years ago while sitting on a bench outside my workplace I noticed two birds running around making all kinds of noise...