Have been suffering a bit of Man Flu for a few days & just haven’t really been out much. So sitting on the settee at the window got the camera out, hence the not to brilliant images as they were taken through the double glazing.
The first & last shots are of a very special bird at our house The Wren, we love wrens & this winter it looks like we have acquired a resident one. It skits about the garden looking in every nook & cranny, of which we have plenty. There are not many days that we do not see it & it just brings a real smile to you, seeing how industrious it is.
The next one is an occasional visitor & very shy & reserved The Tree Creeper, it certainly lives up to it’s name, creeping along with it’s long claws gripping on to any surface.
Next a very common bird in our garden & in most Scottish gardens The Chaffinch, in this case two males picking up scraps of seed I had thrown out of the feeder.
Though most of you will know the next one is a Blackbird, this is not your normal Blackbird. This is one of our winter imports, just a slight colour variation to our normal ones. I think this one is a female & most probably flew in from Scandinavia or even Russia. We have maybe 6 or so that come back to us every year & we know they are the same family as the previous year as they come straight to the backdoor to be fed sultanas. Not a bit shy or hesitant at coming down to feed, they just feel at home straight away.
Lastly we have The Greater Spotted Woodpecker, started of a few years ago with just a couple in the garden, now they arrive daily with their offspring & a total of at least 6 spread around the feeders in the garden. This one tends to own this feeder & the jar of peanut butter a bit higher up, it did allow this years offspring to eat from the jar, but he seems to have prohibited that now.
The abundance of birds in our garden allowed me to take these six shots in just over 5 minutes & I hope I have portrayed the love we have for wildlife, even if their monthly food bill is as high as our own.
