![Long tailed tit taking off from a branch; its wings are open and its looking directly at the camera.](https://botanic-garden.bristol.ac.uk/files/2022/01/DSx6GoRWsAAkzu3-300x218.jpg)
By Andy Winfield
As long as there have been gardens there have been birds in gardens; as gardeners we’re continuing the long relationship that will ever end. There may be some ups and downs, pigeons pecking seedlings or fruit bushes stripped; but on the whole gardeners and garden birds have a bond that goes deep. Here’s how I see some of the birds that visit the Botanic Garden. (more…)