Yesterday (Sunday) and several times today we were thrilled to see a male redpoll on the niger seed - the first we have ever seen here despite endless watching and plenty of alders and birch.
Other more regular birds include a dozen or so siskins, similar numbers of goldfinches and chaffinches, a female brambling, a pair of great spotted woodpeckers, long-tailed tits, house sparrows, blue, coal and great tits, robins, dunnocks, blackbirds, collared doves, a pair of pheasants, and blackbirds - but this year very few sightings of greenfinches.
Well done Sue, well worth waiting for.The males will be showing their breeding plumage soon.
ReplyDeleteyeehaw - siskin for me, redpoll for you! Been a good couple of weeks and long may it continue!
ReplyDeleteThanks both - its looking pretty impressive already, and has visited every day so far. Have taken one or two record shots, but only through the window, so not really worth posting them on here. But I'm happy enough!!
ReplyDeleteSue, it would be nice to see any photos of interest, this is not a photographic blog!
ReplyDeleteDon't try to enlarge the images too big though if taken with one of the small compacts,as the sensor size in these are usually quite smamm.
Thanks for the tips Brian. I didn't want to appear reluctant to show the photos - the truth of the matter is I'm not really technically minded, and so I don't really know what I'm doing as far as getting them on the blog at the right size etc!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see your photos though - and the clarity is amazing considering the distance away from you that the birds often are. Well done.