Birds

I haven't seen the bullfinches often. And no babies (hopefully yet)


I have loads of cute blue tits who don't seem to mind me watching them eating nuts.


This blackie has such lovely colouring


And I have an occasional baby robin visitor who only visits the far corner of the garden

Last weekend outside

Some of the birds are happy for me to be out and about in the garden with them. The best was the siskin. This pic has no zoom on it. I was standing ever so still less than 6 foot from it. I stepped closer and he moved to the other branch and "shrieked" at me until I stepped back.




The bullfinch was a little more nervous but tolerated me


The nuthatch was happy flitting back and fore. He likes the new feeder the most. He has the most gorgeous eyes of any bird.

Just a little peek

The lady blackbird has such great colours

The coal tit likes the fat (and doing acrobatics)

Someone didn't like the rain hahaha.

Mr and Mrs Bully

That's 3 days on the trot I've seen the Mr and (sometimes) Mrs.




How romantic

Today's Visitors

A most welcome visitor today. Mr Bully. No sign of Mrs Bully, though. Hopefully she is in the nursery tending baby bullies. I'd never seen him on the floor before.


Mrs Chaffinch was about, but he didn't like her getting too close to him.




I captured a blackbird on the fence. He was staring me out.


And I thought by putting the feeder under the bush would deter the collared dove, but nope.

Collared Dove and friends

The collared dove had decided that he didn't want to eat off the floor. So he started jumping on to the feeder tray to munch.
Then he sussed he could easily reach the ports.
The feeder was quite solid on the branch with its' metal handle, so I took it off and tied it to the branch with some string, thinking that when he lands it will swing and he'll lose balance.
The next morning, I looked out to see him happily munching away, no problem.
So I moved the feeder to underneath the bush, thinking he'd not get enough room to fly to it.
But I came home to see him munching away. Although I did see him try to get on later on. If he didn't get it right, it would be a bit awkward for him and he'd give up. So a part result.




I have now got 3 greenfinches, although they won't stray from this feeder.


I now have a male and female goldcrest. The male has an orangy stripe while the female's is yellower.


I also have the two nuthatches flitting in and out all day.






"I'm looking at you"


I was especially pleased to get my monthly visit from the bullfinches.

Bully

I like to pop to the back bedroom window first thing in the morning (and when I say first, I mean it's the first thing I do on getting out of bed, haha) to see what's about and this morning, when I saw what was there, I squealled, ran downstairs, crept along the floor to get my camera off the table, then ran back up. There were Mr and Mrs Bullfinch.
Woohoo, I haven't seen them for ages and they were more than happy sat there eating the newly growing buds.



Mr Bully gave me a lovely twirl

The jackdaws sat on next door's garage roof

And Mr Blackbird appreciated the bigger fat cake. Although I did see one of them bouncing up (and missing more than getting a mouthful)

Weekend

I have taken some photos this weekend and had some not so regular visitors return.

Nut hatch

Tree creeper

Long tailed tits - there were 5 at one time.

The squirrel is back

Bull finch - there were 2 visiting

Gold finch

He was patiently waiting for his turn

Lovely colours

Tits

Starling

Black cap

With a chaffinch

After yesterday's drama I had up to 6 siskins at once. I hope she is OK and is one of today's visitors