The year's first broods have only just dispersed, but second attempts are already underway. For most garden birds this is nearly impossible, but some are better ab e to exploit the summer's bounty. If we imagine that the breeding season is a play, then the last couple of weeks of June can represent something of an interval. But now, in July, Act Two opens and it promises many twists and turns of fate and fortune, as every play should. We know some characters by now - the robins that brought up four young from a nest deep in our hedge and the blackbirds who lost their brood to an April frost. We will watch and care about their story in the second half of the season, too.
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