Summer is gradually winning out over winter here, though today the storks looked like they wished they were back in Kenya. They’re still incubating, plus whitewashing the sides of their nest:
That sparrow needs to be careful.
Their near neighbours the collared doves have already left their nest, behind the sign of a garage. Here just before they left:
Brno’s Špilberk park proved to be lively. Very greedy red squirrels:
They had to share the nuts with the jays:
And there were pretty blackcaps:
Elsewhere in Brno, nuthatches showed off their claws:
And we found a posse of black redstarts near the station:
We finally found out way to the Austrian side of the Morava-Danube confluence. While weekend crowds plagued the Slovak side, sandpipers frolicked on the other bank:
Near Schlosshof, we twice saw marsh harriers:
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This long-tailed tit did some impressive hovering: 
As did an obliging kestrel:
In non-bird action, this hare got a bit of a shock when he bounded out of the hedge in front of us: 
And at the end of the day, what makes a nest a home? A bunch of grass bigger than your head, of course! 