Yes it’s here at last, no not the long awaited spring weather, they say we are going to get more snow this weekend. No not the long awaited Lottery win, or even Premium Bonds. No something far more important than all of those.
Yes my new camera has arrived, so I have now got a much improved one, the same as my nephew’s & youngest son’s (don’t you just hate it when these youngsters know the one you want & purchase it before you). It is the all singing & dancing Canon 7d Mark 2, been out a few years now but was always the camera of my dreams since I started taking my hobby a bit serious.
As per usual could have done with it on our weekend away, as visited some great wildlife reserves in Yorkshire, but it is here now. Have rebuilt my little hide in the garden & first thing this morning I was out in it to capture the usual suspects near the feeder.
First the very colourful Male Chaffinch, starting to look good in it’s breeding colours. Second a Male House Sparrow, again looking good. We had in the first five years of living here no Sparrows nesting in the garden, so I made two Sparrow hotels for them (just 3 boxes in one block as they like to live in colonies) & it seems to have worked as the population has shot up, with up to ten coming to the feeders. they have also taken over a Blue Tit box & each year attempt to take on the House Martin pots before the Martins return, I now have to fill the pots with rags until I see the first Martin flying around.
The last one is of a Female Chaffinch, isn’t it strange that birds are the exact opposite to humans, with the males always the brighter coloured birds, where the human “birds” are always way prettier than us drab fellas.
Hope you can see the difference in the quality of these shots, as SWMBO states she can see no difference, married to a peasant me.
