My lockdown spring watch – a photo essay

The Guardian sports photographer Tom Jenkins follows up his popular take on tulips during the enforced break from action photography. Here he talks about how this latest project on a pair of long-tailed tits nesting in his front garden helped him through a difficult spring“Bum barrels twit on bush and tree
Scarse bigger then a bumble bee
And in a white thorn’s leafy rest
It builds its curious pudding-nest
Wi hole beside as if a mouse
Had built the little barrel house.”John Clar