A love nest for all Benedict’s birds

WheN Benedict Cumberbatch and his heavily pregnant wife Sophie hunter move into their new house in North london, they may find their biggest obstacle is not logistics, but the meaning of the word ‘nesting’.

Because while theatre director Sophie, 37, is no doubt keen to adapt their £2.7 million property to family life, the 38- year- old Sherlock star (pictured with Sophie in February) will also be planning f or another arrival.

i hear he has a secret fascination with birds — the winged variety, of course — and plans to transfer the impressive collection of toy birds and gold bird cages that he has amassed in his hampstead bachelor pad.