We've got babies!

For a week or so the squirrels, the local sparrows and the other birds have been almost been eating me out of house and home! This is probably because they are all rearing their young and have been busy with the new arrivals.
The first real sign that young had arrived was Mrs Squirrel who came over a couple of weeks ago looking very scrawny, with a sparse tail and coat. I noticed that she was coming over twice a day and she is now plumper and fluffier and it is very apparent that she is feeding young. Obviously the peanuts and other food she is enjoying have helped her back into condition. Mr squirrel usually comes a little while after she has been and sits on the fence digesting his dinner and occasionally the two of them arrive to dine together.
When I got back from the surgery this afternoon one of the sparrows had two of her young on the bird table. While she was busy stuffing food into the mouth of one of them the other was trying to feed itself but wasn't quite sure what to do with the seed. After five minutes or so she took them both to the bird bath where I thought she was going to show them how to drink but she chirped to them and to my surprise, they both got in and had a good bath! When they had finished, she took them up onto the fence to preen their feathers and dry out. So with the kids fed, bathed and preened she went off with them.
It won't be long before the magpies have their young out in the early morning giving them flying lessons. Last year as soon as the sun was up they would have them flying from one side of the road to the other encouraged by constant loud 'clacking' as encouragement which woke me up very early every morning well before my alarm was due to go off.
I love this time of year when there is so much going on in the garden and so many new 'families' visiting me.